Example sentences of "they [be] [art] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the sort of people ( and very often the same people ) that in Britain you meet in CND and in scores of cluttered offices dedicated to under-regarded and under-rewarded causes . |
| 2 | Like when someone says that the records you love are just plastic junk and they are the sort of people who read and rake in all that shit in the daily papers , then it makes me think that my daily intake of media is far superior to theirs . |
| 3 | Now they are the sort of MPs who are most likely to support traditional Labour policies , which Clarke , on the hypothetical question of water renationalisation , was implicitly rejecting . |
| 4 | ‘ They are the sort of grumbling pains — unsexy disorders that we tend to put up with . |
| 5 | But somebody has been sent to prison , they are the sort of person who you would think of , should never be sent to prison , somebody who has diddled his firm out of a couple of thousand . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're a sort of greyish-brown colour , ’ he said ambiguously , ‘ a bit like a deer . |
| 7 | I wonder if it 's the opposite and they 're a sort of post-acting civilization , maybe the first one on the earth . |
| 8 | And they 're a sort of vampire . |
| 9 | People like daddy have to hold the ring , they 're a sort of bedrock , to make sure there 's always some civilisation to fall back on . |
| 10 | They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence . |
| 11 | In short , they 're the sort of people who 'd make Dire Straits fans , buyers of ‘ Spirit Of Ecstasy ’ compilations and Q journalists turn white . |
| 12 | Dwyer , who has watched tapes of Neath , said : ‘ They 're the sort of scrappy team we have n't played particularly well against on tour . |
| 13 | Right they 're the sort of they 're the go they 're good titles . |
| 14 | Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish . |
| 15 | They 're the sort of things that happen ? |
| 16 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 17 | Because they 're the sort of brainless beefoes who do n't know when a job is finished we get a re-run of their fantasies , and Rachel shrugs and walks away from the door . |
| 18 | They 're the sort of people you get . |
| 19 | They 're they 're the sort of things that you could never get hold of , you know , that we always kept ourselves . |
| 20 | They 're the sort of things that you 've got to know . |
| 21 | I mean , to open it , they , they just sort of did n't twig , but like , they 're the sort of people that wine , cos Mark 's got a really bad influence on these people , he gets them he gets everybody really drunk . |
| 22 | And that 's what we 've got to change , because they 're the sort of women we need coming into parliament . |
| 23 | They 're the sort of women who are needed to make the real changes . |
| 24 | And they 're the sort of people who are anyway having great difficulty finding er the extra to support their er own workers with their initial Poll Tax payments anyway . |
| 25 | They were a sort of club rather like a football club . |
| 26 | You encounter as if they were a sort of home Fountains of fern that jet from the coarse loam . |
| 27 | ‘ They were the sort of people who twenty-five years ago would have been deferred to because they were gents . |
| 28 | They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually . |
| 29 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 30 | They were the sort of ears that could keep plates spinning at the circus . |