Example sentences of "sort of [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 2 | No one is ever going to believe you are totally innocent over this , and the sort of publicity the fuel blend failure attracted this afternoon is extremely damaging , as I 'm sure you are aware . |
| 3 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 4 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 5 | Would you agree with Mr that on this sort of raid the adrenaline 's flowing ? |
| 6 | in a round about sort of way the Head |
| 7 | ‘ In a funny sort of way the injury helped . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 9 | The grunt was expressive , and Patrick immediately knew what sort of friend the man thought him to be . |
| 10 | If I could just ask you what sort of activities the Guild , the Guilds are actually involved in today ? |
| 11 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 12 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 13 | I see , so coming back to er making the pills and silver on it and gold , was this er sort of foe the aristocracy more ? |
| 14 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 15 | Even better , ask around and find out what sort of person the interviewer is , his/her likes and dislikes . |
| 16 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 17 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 18 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 19 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 20 | But I mean I think Gill sort of worries the fact I think she 's , I mean nobody said she 'd be in there till Christmas . |
| 21 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
| 22 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 23 | Again the reader is offered choice ; here a choice of what sort of Miller the reader wishes to have . |
| 24 | It was n't the sort of situation the etiquette books catered for . |
| 25 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |
| 26 | If punishment is assimilated into the probation glossary it will inevitably influence the sort of practice the Service undertakes . |
| 27 | THAT SORT of conversion the road to Damnedmascus sounds like a cliché today , but people did go through it then . |
| 28 | More importantly , food molecules get into the mother 's breast milk , and babies that are exclusively breast-fed can be ill because of the sort of food the mother is eating . |
| 29 | The beginning of each sentence in the middle of the poem seems to start at the end of the previous line which has the effect of making the reader almost experience the same sort of speed the train is going through . |
| 30 | Finally , it should be clear from the outset what sort of information the survey is designed to elicit . |