Example sentences of "sort of [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a sort of excitement to him . ’ |
| 2 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 3 | Secondly , what is the Kuwaiti position on major issues in the region — nationhood , religion , balance of power , balance of wealth , and finally what future role to Kuwaitis aspire to , what sort of peace to they want or expect . |
| 4 | There 's no sort of tradition to it , is there ? |
| 5 | He found himself considering how different were these two sisters , Agnes vehement , voluble , exclamatory ; Mariot quiet , with a sort of serenity to her , but warm somehow he felt — where the other might be hot . |
| 6 | The thought of Reni sending any sort of word to him amused Huy ; but the boy continued to look at him seriously . |
| 7 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 8 | Is it some sort of reference to your own noble persistence in trying to restore our marriage ? |
| 9 | He was a sort of god to us … |
| 10 | In the only passage where he concedes any degree of effectiveness to workers ' combinations , Adam Smith said of the wool combers : " By combining not to take apprentices … [ they ] … reduce the whole of the manufacture into a sort of slavery to themselves , and raise the price of labour much above what is due to the nature of their work . " |
| 11 | It could well be , of course , that after examining questions such as this , John McElroy decides that the whole scheme is vaguely hare-brained — the sort of proposal to which people in Britain have grown accustomed from the likes of Sir Keith Joseph . |
| 12 | In the meantime , I shall nurture the fondest avuncular feelings for Miss Schlegel , and do my best to ensure that her mind remains unpolluted by the filth they teach her in America , and will thus be beautifully blank and receptive to the sort of filth to which I personally incline . |
| 13 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 14 | And it is easy to bring that sort of attitude to our faith . |
| 15 | They saw abstractions as in some warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives . |
| 16 | They saw abstractions as in some way warm and coloured , and the sort of things to which you could appropriately apply quite vivid adjectives . |
| 17 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 18 | We 've heard erm quite a lot of support from most of the Districts er and there 's been no er particular sort of opposition to what we 've been proposing er in those particular areas from any other source . |
| 19 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
| 20 | Has a sort of ring to it , does n't it , and not much less sensible than President Reagan 's suggestions . |
| 21 | Old Codgers Corner — got a sort of ring to it ! |
| 22 | Maybe it 's a sort of throw-back to my army days . |
| 23 | His illegal confiscation of their estates was the sort of action to which the landed classes were normally extremely sensitive but , in the short term , it met with no resistance . |
| 24 | His illegal confiscation of their estates was the sort of action to which the landed classes were normally extremely sensitive but , in the short term , it met with no resistance . |
| 25 | She was the sort of woman to whom one might bring flowers or round boxes of Turkish Delight or strings of beaded sea-shells . |
| 26 | Any sort of attention to his genitals , even if it was the sort of gesture usually used by particularly aggressive barristers , was welcome . |
| 27 | Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir . |
| 28 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the sort of project to which he just referred is another example of where a national lottery could be of great assistance ? |
| 29 | She needed him to be ready to make some sort of commitment to her . |
| 30 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |