Example sentences of "[verb] in some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bell , on the other hand , might start wanting to pretend to behave in some sort of pseudo British Council evenhanded way over published materials . |
| 2 | Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home . |
| 3 | In the middle of the spectrum are those rare books that are rooted in some sort of evidence while looking at humans as the fascinating evolutionary product that they are . |
| 4 | erm The Spire is erm a symbol that has a lot of meanings attached to it , and it 's finally a book not about the building of a spire , but about a particular obsession in an individual human being , about the ideas that a man might have about ways of doing great things , which might actually be ideas that are rooted in some sort of self-deception . |
| 5 | But , if we had bought in some sort of penal clause , then I mean firms might be inclined to look very critically at the qualifications their engineers have got . |
| 6 | If that did happen , should we try to intervene , should we offer to put in some sort of peace-keeping force or should we just leave them to it ? |
| 7 | The inside of the channel is coated in some sort of Teflon-like substance which ensures that no matter how hard one scrapes along the bottom or smashes into corners , remarkably little blood gets drawn . |
| 8 | THE TITLE says it all : the ‘ stolen continents ’ were the lands in North , Central and South America where gentle loving souls lived in some sort of earthly paradise , happily harvesting luxuriant crops and enjoying a stable regime with only ‘ low-key ’ wars . |
| 9 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 10 | And I recall also some years ago , Mr Rayne , who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginald Mauvis , remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station . |
| 11 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 12 | " Breast of turkey in an orange sauce , vegetables marinated in … " he sniffed , breathing in the mouthwatering aroma , " marinated in some sort of alcohol … " |
| 13 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 14 | Certainly my personal reaction when hearing of the unexpected death of someone I know has always been , ‘ I must wait to have it confirmed in some sort of irrevocable way because I 'm sure I must have got it wrong ’ . |
| 15 | So whichever sort of practice you 're going into , you may at some point be required to advocate in some sort of court setting . |
| 16 | I did n't and could n't see it as a progressive condition which was bound to culminate in some sort of breakdown or breakthrough . |
| 17 | Penetrating , complex and totally different in structure , it pulls the single line of melody up and down and spins it out to leave you dangling in some sort of musical nirvana . |
| 18 | Oh yes , and seeing whether you 'd yes , how you were coping with it and whether you got too involved or whether you did n't get involved enough or whether you actually were able to sort of get this balance between erm the sort of emotional support you give and the actual practical help which maybe they need in some sort of way , you know because I mean |
| 19 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 20 | I have in some sort made myself a party to your situation , and it will go hard with my conscience if you find yourself no better blessed than in your old condition . |