Example sentences of "sort of [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are all sorts of other ways in which it is hard to learn to use existing languages . |
| 2 | A lot of what it has in it is also to be found in all sorts of other books in the genre . |
| 3 | So whenever you 've got Xs and Ys and all sorts of strange things in there think just , it 's only a number . |
| 4 | Ian 's been sort of talking about all sorts of strange things in his sleep and |
| 5 | ‘ When I was young , I used to keep all sorts of tropical fish in a tank . |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment purports to have knowledge enough at its fingertips to enable a standard spending assessment to be made that takes account of all sorts of individual circumstances in each local authority area . |
| 7 | The uneven development of the technologies of production and communication had also produced a sharp , and apparently increasing demand in the job market for boys to do all sorts of simple work in the sphere of communications and transport : van boys , errand boys , messenger boys , boys to answer telephones , boys to hold horses ' heads and other kinds of trivial but essential work . |
| 8 | The construction of that generality does not pretend to be the only possible one — the same event could operate in all sorts of different ways in different series , temporalities , which would mean that , strictly speaking , it was no longer the same event , for it would have been dispersed in their different rarefactions . |
| 9 | But eventually the arguments all boil down to the fact that it is more economic to harvest the rainforest sustainably than clear-fell it in the idiotic way we have been doing until now , and that this is of immense benefit to us , the human species , because of the maintenance of that genetic diversity which will cure all sorts of dreadful diseases in the future . |
| 10 | We have two sorts of light receptors in the retina , rods and cones . |
| 11 | You could put all sorts of little things in there . |
| 12 | Consequently , the result is a dull plod , a sort of po-faced mini-series in which a whole bunch of set-pieces go begging for some cinematic tricks to give them a proper build-up and punchline . |
| 13 | He has raised a sort of spiritual city in the midst of London … |
| 14 | In one very vivid dream , I remember being shot in the lower back and although it was only a dream we had to swim under a sort of submerged wall in order to escape . ’ |
| 15 | You suspect , though , that featuring male witches is a reaction to economic demands rather than any sort of radical reinterpretation in this , the Redgrave 's first Shakespeare in many years . |
| 16 | There is a sort of closed pocket in those areas . |
| 17 | However , if it produced the right sort of pro-saving policies in the meantime , the hand-wringing would have served a useful purpose . |
| 18 | So essentially , what you 're saying is we 've got the erm the sort of environmental checks in place , to help |
| 19 | Tell there 's a little sort of slight story in it . |
| 20 | erm There does seem to be a sort of slight discrepancy in the idea of us trying to have a nice clean city and then the people on the allotments committee continuing to build bonfires. erm And it is possible that they perhaps , they have n't in fact any alternative way of getting rid of their rubbish , on the allotments site . |
| 21 | Admittedly , the draft legislation made provision for a more demanding sort of primary education in parts of the country which expressed a desire for it , but the likelihood of this superior version taking root was small in view of the poverty of the peasants who would have to pay for it . |
| 22 | And it is possible to note , as Max Weber does , a sort of transitional phase in the movement towards a fully-fledged modernity that comes into being in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 23 | There was a sort of uneasy complaisance in their relationship now . |
| 24 | He also got on well with the justices of the Jews and may for a brief period have enjoyed some sort of official position in the Exchequer of the Jews . |
| 25 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 26 | The believer then claims either the sort of reasoned proof in which Locke had confidence , or some sort of self-authenticating ‘ proof from experience ’ such as Wesley argued for . |
| 27 | Sort of foul taste in my mouth . ’ |
| 28 | There was a little exhibition called The Nude and basically they 've got a nice little Picture Gallery there with sort of various things in , but they also had some lovely anatomy books beside it and so on , some amazing engravings , you know , entire body structures , skeletal man , muscular man , . |
| 29 | It also seemed to inspire a sort of motherly affection in others , so that I was more likely to get away with carelessness or naughtiness than were my more physically mature contemporaries . |
| 30 | And I think my own sort of obsessive nature in the studio really started to get to Terry , and he just gave up trying . |