Example sentences of "[prep] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 2 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 3 | Accusations of cynical pension-planning inevitably follow , as do questions about whether this is the sort of thing that grown men should be up to . |
| 4 | He was wearing some kind of rock ‘ n ’ roll suit , the sort of thing that Jerry Lee Lewis might have worn — or more likely the duds you 'd see on a young country buck in one of those dreadful fifties US musicals like Carousel or County Fair . |
| 5 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 6 | Maggie knew , even as she heard it , that Phoebe did not mean anything of the sort ; it was the kind of thing that Rachel dragged you into saying . |
| 7 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 8 | Of the various smoked shellfish available , smoked mussels and oysters are the most popular , and smoked squid is the sort of thing that browsers pick up , show their friends and put down again . |
| 9 | Robertson Nicoll told A. S. Peake in 1898 , ‘ You would not believe what hosts of letters I get , and do not print , about the kind of thing that is preached in many of our chapels just now , especially by the younger men ’ . |
| 10 | It was a toe-curling moment , the sort of thing that turns the middle-classes right off . |
| 11 | Many thanks for the script , it said , but it was not the sort of thing that Sky was planning at the moment . |
| 12 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 13 | Few primary schools are likely to match the example of Meadowfield Comprehensive School in Sheffield that raised £80,000 by accommodating conferences for the City 's Area Health Authority and its Training and Enterprise Council but it 's an example of the sort of thing that can be done with imagination and energy . |
| 14 | It is the first of this kind of thing that I have organised and I would like it to be a success . |
| 15 | Two Derby winners and an uncle who made a record ascent of the Eiger , that 's the sort of thing that mattered . ’ |
| 16 | That is not the sort of thing that is going to make anyone 's reputation . |
| 17 | And yet this is the kind of thing that made a fortune for Dr Tarnower and is , in its way , replicated in all diet books : this mixture of ruthlessness , optimism and fatuity . |
| 18 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not the sort of thing that generally happens . ’ |
| 20 | Furthermore , protesting one 's innocence will be seen as the kind of thing that everyone who is convicted does . |
| 21 | First , context suggests the sort of thing that might be said ( the crash was on a border , so the question of which side of the border something will happen on is appropriate ) . |
| 22 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 25 | It was the sort of thing that happened these days . |
| 26 | He frowned , pulled the napkin from his lap and laid it on the table as he stood up , shrugging apologetically to his mother , seeming to indicate that it was the kind of thing that had happened before , from time to time . |
| 27 | Its message was iconoclastic , even radical and certainly not at all the type of thing that one would expect to see emanating from a government department , with the seal of approval provided by a preface over the minister 's signature . |
| 28 | It is the sort of thing that leaves a permanent mark for good or ill on the member concerned . |
| 29 | The US giant , Dun & Bradstreet , is so concerned about this sort of thing that it has banned unions from access to its databases . |
| 30 | It is certainly the sort of thing that Garel-Jones says in private because he often describes himself and his family in similar terms . |