Example sentences of "[vb base] a sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 2 | In experiments of this sort , which provide a sort of population index of learning , about two thirds of the normal ( what geneticists call ‘ wild-type ’ ) flies avoid the shock-associated odour , and only one third avoid the control odour . |
| 3 | By making written work ( of all kinds — including Maths , Science and Artwork for example ) a part of their drama we provide a sort of safety net , a " No Penalty Zone " in which they can pretend to be someone other than themselves writing their letter , wording their advertisement or drawing up their menu … |
| 4 | ‘ You want a sort of conference . |
| 5 | Our wind playing , however , is an incredibly high standard and what we have got in our orchestras are brilliant sight readers and if you want a sort of erm an orchestra to learn something then an English orchestra will take , I do n't know , a quarter of the time that any other Continental orchestra will take . |
| 6 | I 'll get a sort of programme , preliminary discussion , a one to one discussion , with anyone who reports to me , and then schedule a sort of follow up session on that later . |
| 7 | If Edgar speaks the last words , they appear a sort of reproof to Albany while Edgar assumes authority over the hopes of the future . |
| 8 | So it it is a sort of selection process a sort of mutual selection process . |
| 9 | He talked religion with the great Erasmus Darwin in Derby , preached to sometimes vast congregations from Unitarian pulpits — ‘ my Sermons spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition ’ — and returned in triumph to Bristol with the names of several hundred new subscribers . |
| 10 | And you know these telephone-holes — when they 've dug a good hole they put a sort of canvas tent on top , so that they can work in comfort underneath . |
| 11 | Yes and they wear a sort of like a back thing on the back . |
| 12 | yes and they wear a sort of like a back thing on the back , is that Chinese ? |
| 13 | A ‘ team manager ’ ( they use the English words ) is for the Milan machine a sort of liaison officer between the players and the board . |
| 14 | in the , in the sense that i if , if you look , i if you adopt a sort of retrospective view , I E if you look back from say anything after nineteen forty nine and you say look , hold on erm this was the final stage of the revolution . |
| 15 | Do people sort of artificially put on their best behaviour , as it were , or something like that , and thereby give a sort of rather distorted impression as to what 's really going on . |
| 16 | Not that Hewlett was a representative figure , if by that we mean a sort of undistinguished average . |
| 17 | ‘ You mean a sort of show … ’ |
| 18 | I mean a sort of interconnectedness ; a field effect . |
| 19 | GNASHING teeth make a sort of sliding , scraping noise inside the head , I find . |
| 20 | They usually make a sort of ear sound if they 've got I mean |
| 21 | He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall |
| 22 | You know a sort of a er a fairly low content , high impact thing . |
| 23 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 24 | you know it 's almost as if it 's like er you know a sort of negative thing to , to , to find out about somebody erm so erm yeah I mean I think I , so I think you 'll , I think you 'll , you 'll of necessity have to try and do something which captures this , this sort of informal talk because as soon as people commit themselves to writing they 're gon na be erm they 're gon na be |
| 25 | Saw one one lad was really really sort of well okay he was n't clever by any stretch of the imagination but he just , was just a you know a sort of no-hoper and he he riled one teacher up very very badly one day cos he did n't do his homework or he was pratting about or he was you know . |
| 26 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 27 | If you neglect to moisturise your body skin , particularly on the lower legs , you get a sort of crazy-paving cracked look over the shins , and the skin on your elbows and heels can become callused and thickened . |
| 28 | I get a sort of impression of black and bright colours but it was always different . |
| 29 | You get a sort of lighthouse flash from the headlights , as they swing round the curve there and out of sight . |
| 30 | And get a sort of |