Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I think here in the United Kingdom , we have to continue trying to urge our governments to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child , which is a sort of Bill of Rights for children .
2 Starting from this background the painter now works toward the front by a sort of scheme of forms in which each object 's position is clearly indicated , both in relation to the definite background and to the other objects . ’
3 This unruffled progression fits perfectly the sort of chain of correlations of consequences which we disentangled at the start of this chapter but it does not seem to offer the prospect of the decisive determination of a particular result .
4 But I think it would be very nice if everybody joined Riot Girl , just to show sort of affiliation of events on campus .
5 Olive MacDonald does the choir , soloists look after themselves , all the producer has to do is arrange a sort of ballet of tableaux to the music .
6 Superficially it might seem logical to place ‘ individual selection ’ on a sort of ladder of levels of selection , half-way between the ‘ gene selection ’ advocated in Chapter 3 and the ‘ group selection ’ criticized in Chapter 7 .
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