Example sentences of "[verb] to some sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , the concern to increase calibre embodies a concern to recapture the social relations , style of politics , and class of leadership , that existed before the franchise was extended and before the working class rose to some sort of local political power through the Labour Party . |
| 2 | I think Mum 's come to some sort of agreement with Viola over the profits . |
| 3 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 4 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 5 | In both cases there 's a facility for storing data , for performing operations according to some sort of program , and for telling the operator the results . |
| 6 | We 're in a room that occupies the whole ground floor of the cottage ; in one comer , a steep staircase — more like a ladder climbs to some sort of loft or upper room . |
| 7 | If it amounts to some sort of ‘ machine privacy ’ , is that at all suggestive for the question of consciousness ? |
| 8 | Soap opera watchers do n't just stick to some sort of naive interest in characters and plot . |
| 9 | Though the generals were brought to some sort of obedience by the Cortes and the Regency , in the provinces they used the ‘ egoism ’ of the Juntas and their endless disputes with the relics of the old administration in order to extend their own power . |
| 10 | I suppose everyone has to keep to some sort of rule . |
| 11 | Being defined in terms of tension or paradox , ambiguity 's potential diversity was restored to some sort of unitary wholeness . |
| 12 | The only way I can account for that is he was exposed to some sort of nerve gas . ’ |
| 13 | Gone to some sort of college . |
| 14 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 15 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 16 | The need for industrial application shows the practical nature of patent law , which requires that the invention should be something which can be produced or that it relates to some sort of industrial process . |
| 17 | which you do , and then you 're er you know in their eyes you 're , you 're sort of trained to some sort of level for their sort of work . |
| 18 | ‘ She was most certainly subjected to some sort of ordeal . ’ |
| 19 | Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 20 | I think that we must whe when we 're , we we must come to some sort of consensus in the staff as to what the levels mean in inverted commas . |
| 21 | But perhaps they 'll come to some sort of understanding . |
| 22 | The leaders of the groups that he mentions might well come to some sort of compromise — I might have achieved that — but I would not be able to command a majority of Members , who have other ideas . |
| 23 | Was there any sense of surprise really that as the quarrier was were Welshmen and most of the workforce were Welshmen that in fact things would come to some sort of agreement , that there would n't be this kind of |
| 24 | But assuming we it does come to some sort of settlement ultimately , are you saying then that you still doubt whether there 's that political will ? |
| 25 | ‘ No-o … these things are numbered and they 'll be cross-indexed to some sort of register of names . |
| 26 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 27 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 28 | I mean it may well be that we have to resort to some sort of er |
| 29 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 30 | In theory , guidelines for open systems are formulated when a committee of vendors come to some sort of agreement over architectural definitions and create a standard . |