Example sentences of "sort of [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are certain sorts of clothes that make you an ‘ OK person ’ ( like Levi jeans or Reebok trainers ) . |
| 2 | We then turn to the main techniques for studying the physiological side of the equation , lesions , stimulation , and recording , looking at the sorts of problems that affect our interpretation of experiments . |
| 3 | The sorts of premises that lend themselves to this kind of development tend to be your large country house type accommodation , miles from anywhere . |
| 4 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 5 | Once back upstairs in the box , he could not leave the mystery alone and his mind conjured up all sorts of solutions but analysing them brought no relief . |
| 6 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 7 | The truth may be that her stoical-witty-rueful literary persona may even steer the writer towards the sort of life that ensures her material does n't dry up . |
| 8 | She has the sort of smile that makes you think that any minute now she 's going to put her head on one side , but she never does . |
| 9 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 10 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 11 | The second type of explanation suggests that these people have some sort of defect that makes them less able to cope with environmental chemicals . |
| 12 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 13 | you would tend to raise your foot off the brake sort of jump and take your foot off the brake and you 'd go forward and hit the car in front . |
| 14 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 15 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 16 | Yes , erm all our sort of cabbage stalks and beans stalks go onto the muck heap to turn into a sort of compost , but other people they just sort of burn or take them away and buy a bag of compost . |
| 17 | If you are a small family , look for models with the sort of controls that allow you rinse-and-hold cycles — a short cycle which rinses dishes for a short time to get rid of dried-on food and any smells so that they can then wait till you have a full load to put through . |
| 18 | It 's the same sort of factor that allows anybody who smokes a lot to not get cancer and not get bronchitis and live , also live a long time . |
| 19 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 20 | I was conscious of rich chaos , the sort of jumble that lures one into a junk-shop knowing that under the piles of objects and above one 's head there are riches to be mined . |
| 21 | Certainly , the sort of rumours and gossip which were common about his sister and brother were not attached to him . |
| 22 | They also like this sort of excitement and you know when things chop and change and there 's sort of erm almost like a crisis situation and lots of excitement , lots of activity , activists actually thrive on that , they like that sort of challenge that stimulates their learning . |
| 23 | The sort of job that pleased him most , this one . |
| 24 | Call me old-fashioned , but I think a lot of American actors just do a sort of swagger and leave it at that . |
| 25 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 26 | He had a close look at Shearer in Saturday 's match at Blackburn , and added : ‘ He 's the sort of player that makes you want to get the ball to him as many times as possible . |
| 27 | It decided not to pay out the sums so received to individual solicitors as a sort of dividend but to apply them for the benefit of the profession as a whole . |
| 28 | There was , she recalls , ‘ a sort of madness that overtook him . |
| 29 | We talked about each department erm being able to invest in their own technology and make their own er decisions on what sort of database or interface they would use to deploy their applications . |
| 30 | Does it make you want Is it the sort of ache that makes you want to wriggle it around ? |