Example sentences of "sort [prep] [adj] [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In two further cases the role intention plays is the same sort of interpretative role which it can so easily assume in legacies : to consider what meaning the testator attached to the words he used ; or what his intention was in imposing a modality on a disposition . |
| 2 | Many women authors extend the sort of metafictional self-scrutiny which The Golden Notebook so extensively sustains : Eva Figes 's novels , for example , often raise self-referential questioning of their own representational validity and Muriel Spark teases several of her heroines with unsettling awareness of the process of their own creation . |
| 3 | Also there has tended to be in earlier Soviet writing a sort of radical cornucopianism which has provided the ideological context of some technically disastrous decisions on the use of land . |
| 4 | The inside of the channel is coated in some sort of Teflon-like substance which ensures that no matter how hard one scrapes along the bottom or smashes into corners , remarkably little blood gets drawn . |
| 5 | SEGLAB could include a ‘ lip-smackin ’ rule as in HWIM which detected the sort of voiceless burst which precedes many utterances . |
| 6 | Hence priority was given to a recovery programme whereby the Americans hoped to trade massive financial aid for the creation of the sort of Western Europe which would meet America 's economic and strategic interests . |
| 7 | Like the sort of heterodox culture which Mapplethorpe incarnated . |
| 8 | Her veil and abaya , far heavier than normal , seemed to turn her whole figure into a sort of black pillar which , unless it moved , had neither front nor back . |
| 9 | Organisers have an understandable desire to avoid a media circus and the sort of misguided demonstration which occurred when the Harris statue was unveiled . |
| 10 | You mentioned boxing and that 's a sort of legitimate violence which takes place in a limited area and which people watch because presumably they enjoy it , but do n't wish to particularly partake in themselves , and whereas it 's all right for people to punch each other 's heads in the boxing ring , they would object to people coming outside the boxing ring and punching the spectators ' heads . |
| 11 | In Italy , the game has the sort of cross-class status which is almost unimaginable in Britain . |
| 12 | Polycarp is taken into the arena for the sort of gruesome death which some feel kept Christianity alive in its early period , and which certainly kept the Hollywood epic alive in the modern period . |
| 13 | It means shaving away constantly at the sort of multiple objectives which we normally like to set ourselves , until one reaches an absolutely clear message of a mission and role . |
| 14 | How many truly realise that quality is knowing your buyer , getting him or her to define quality , rather than producing some sort of static standard which demands slavish conformance ? |
| 15 | Then the others thinned out , and there was the sort of forced conversation which takes place when people are seeing each other off . |
| 16 | As Acheson had remarked in 1952 , the world had moved on too far for Churchill and Eden to try to revive the sort of personal ties which had existed with President Roosevelt during the Second World War — this would be " a classical example of the wrong way to do things " . |
| 17 | It is not the sort of financial assessment which would find quarter in many other areas of economics . |
| 18 | Again , no one has seriously questioned the need for further legislation to protect union members against the sort of financial mismanagement which was revealed in the Lightman report into the affairs of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 19 | Lifestyle data can identify those interested in a particular product or service but can not answer the sort of financial questions which will help the credit marketer achieve success even through a recession . |
| 20 | We thought there was some sort of divine providence which would somehow or other get us away . |
| 21 | Leonard Woolf , himself a Jew , has said , " I think T. S. Eliot was slightly anti-semitic in the sort of vague way which is not uncommon . |
| 22 | Now if children are unable to interpret the visual symbols and the written word , in order to make sense of them , there 's bound to be some reaction which will show itself in a sort of behavioural response which appears to be different from the responses we would receive from children who are able to interpret these words and symbols . |
| 23 | It is this sort of criminal behaviour which is commonly seen as characteristic of ( if not central to ) mass , urban society . |
| 24 | They ate nothing themselves , but watched me eat with a sort of respectful deference which made me uneasy , it being , I felt , inappropriate and therefore dangerous . |
| 25 | So you look you look analysis of design er come up with er sort of elementary functions which you need to model inside the applications . |
| 26 | Er it said produce seventy two to seventy three three , so two produces a budget of seventy two million in two b you can see but you will see in two b that we are actually saying you can have an actual sort of implemental approach which will take you up to three billion . |
| 27 | At its worst , it produces the sort of fractured English which has full stops in the middle of very terse sentences . |
| 28 | The party leader , Hans-Jochen Vogel , a rather uninspiring figure , has nonetheless proved adept at managing this delicate evolution which , bolder than anything the Labour party ever contemplated , has avoided the sort of fratricidal bloodletting which ravaged its British counterpart . |
| 29 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 30 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |