Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a nonsense to inhibit that sort of synergy on the basis that together the merged units have a logically dominant position in the relatively small British market . |
| 2 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 3 | and Arthur was erm sort of Clerk to the Library Sub committee |
| 4 | I think she does appeal to the public schoolboy as the sort of mixture of the matron and many other things which psychiatrists could describe . ’ |
| 5 | As the net closed in , guided by a man balancing in a sort of tub in the water , the fish jumped higher and higher out of the water , and some of them managed to escape . |
| 6 | Erm there 's going to be a sort of event at the Rhodes Centre . |
| 7 | Yeah yeah certainly , erm I think that 's er that 's good , well if , if you can , if you can access it er in some way informally or , or , you know , it 's probably un unlikely that you 'd get too much stuff in writing as you say but , you know , er it could be very er productive and interesting erm tt erm can that sort of thing , particularly if you can get it in terms of quotes from people , you can sort of , you know , make a project look quite nice because it looks like if you do all this , you know , sort of stuff with the attitude scales it , it 's er it gives you lots of nice numerical data but er |
| 8 | Cos they 've got see I do n't know whether I do n't know whether it makes it Hemmings hey 've got nought percent disc er interest and all that sort of stuff on every single thing |
| 9 | There 's usually some sort of scene in the morning . |
| 10 | Just as serious students with a syllabus to get through needed lectures different from those whose hobby was science , so those studying biology or medicine needed a different sort of museum from the general public , excited by dinosaur bones and stuffed grizzly bears . |
| 11 | Mildred lapsed into silence and fixed her eyes on Maud in the hope that she might be able to send some sort of message through the air — like a radio wave — to her friend . |
| 12 | First , Wittgenstein sees this sort of foundationalist as a form of sceptic , who admits the difficulty of showing that we are ever justified in believing that other persons exist . |
| 13 | I could n't quite tell , and as a sort of curator of the afternoon , it made me nervous . |
| 14 | But when that 's passed I think that being able to have sex with other people is an essential part of your relationships ; otherwise , one does , or I do , feel very trapped , feel the sort of heaviness of a conventional marriage . |
| 15 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 16 | Question : does this suggest that ( a ) his nine lives are up ; or ( b ) this is some sort of vision for the future of the health service ? |
| 17 | This sort of counter-example to the tripartite account of knowledge is known as a Gettier counter-example , after E. L. Gettier ( 1963 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ There is now no sort of work in the home strictly reserved for the wives , ’ Young concluded . |
| 19 | Husbands also did a lot of work in the home , including many jobs which are not at all traditional men 's ones … there is now no sort of work in the home strictly reserved for ‘ the wives ’ . |
| 20 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 21 | If it was sort of part of the |
| 22 | Be be because you know it , it really is , it 's erm er it is sort of really we see it as sort of part of the confirmation programme really and your involvement in it , and it 's all sort of quite erm special to confirmation so it would be nice if you could be involved . |
| 23 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 24 | But he would never see it because his heart was more concerned with the new love of his life and some sort of retribution for the past . |
| 25 | Alix wore a white dress bought ready-made from a department store , her younger sister was a sort of bridesmaid in a flowered print , and her little brother wore a grey suit with short trousers and a pale-blue tie , on which he spilt some strawberry ice-cream . |
| 26 | I du n no you , yeah , you just sort of got ta say ob obviously you want to think about it , obviously it 's , you know it 's a lot of money , you know , but are you happy with the window , is it , you know , is it the sort of style of the win , you know , is it the sort of style of the window , we , we , I du n no , we agreed on this sort of style , is it the , you know , the sort of style that goes , goes with it , go through sort of one or two what and find out what , what it is they really want to think about |
| 27 | I du n no you , yeah , you just sort of got ta say ob obviously you want to think about it , obviously it 's , you know it 's a lot of money , you know , but are you happy with the window , is it , you know , is it the sort of style of the win , you know , is it the sort of style of the window , we , we , I du n no , we agreed on this sort of style , is it the , you know , the sort of style that goes , goes with it , go through sort of one or two what and find out what , what it is they really want to think about |
| 28 | An expert can not get this sort of help from the court , as can an arbitrator : see 16.3.4 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Eliot , in The Use of Poetry , quoted Jacques Rivière : ‘ It is only with the advent of Romanticism that the literary act came to be conceived as a sort of raid on the absolute and its results as a revelation . ’ |