Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she could not have thought of was this sort of permanent liaison , almost a marriage . |
| 2 | Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened . |
| 3 | It was going to be that sort of party . |
| 4 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 5 | This event , billed to take place in London this week under the auspices of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) , was previously thought to be some sort of mirage . |
| 6 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |
| 7 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |
| 8 | What was even more alarming was that the American president believed North to be some sort of hero . |
| 9 | If the local authority sustained its objection , one other thing was also certain : according to the law , there would have to be some sort of public inquiry . |
| 10 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 11 | The ability to win over an informant who is undecided whether or not to grant the interview is important , as is the ability to put people at their ease and reassure them that the interview is not going to be some sort of viva voce examination . |
| 12 | And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’ |
| 13 | There would have to be some sort of Council meeting , anyway , held somewhere out of Edward 's reach , to try to cope with the situation . |
| 14 | The second view is that Judas told the chief priests that Jesus had claimed to be some sort of Messiah ; perhaps one who would lead a rebellion against the Romans . |
| 15 | ‘ His first priority seems to be some sort of national health care service . |
| 16 | He 's making me out to be some sort of thick , brainless loony on a self-destruct road to ruin . |
| 17 | Crap title aside , this excellent 60-minute fantasy appears to be some sort of morality tale of the decline of America , complete with idiots in Elvis masks , transvestite judges and the usual GWAR characters ( The Sexecutioner , Sleazy P Martini , etc . ) |
| 18 | And since the water authorities are enforcement agencies they also control to a very great degree what may seem to be some sort of ‘ real level ’ of pollution which comes to light in amount and kind — those events or incidents which are detected and processed , becoming statistics of non-compliance or even , in some rare cases , of prosecutions in annual reports . |
| 19 | It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual . |
| 20 | I include them because his statement that his days on the Western Front — in spite of the horror and the squalor — were the happiest of his life seems to be some sort of commentary on the greater part of a lifetime spent in what is often regarded as the idyllic English countryside . |
| 21 | ‘ There ought to be some sort of dustbin for them . ’ |
| 22 | Bourne did not quite know what to make of these tender morsels of nostalgic recollection but , believing them to be some sort of test , he held his peace , making no comment . |
| 23 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 24 | Next year , though , she would be twenty-five , and that seemed to be some sort of milestone . |
| 25 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 26 | It was going to be some sort of a night for Mr Churchill and his friends , he mused . |
| 27 | There is obviously going to be some sort of demonstration at the Chelsea game but in what form . |
| 28 | It ca n't be just figures it has to be some sort of er summation does n't it as well or not ? |
| 29 | ‘ The last thing I need is some husband-hunting female , scarcely out of the schoolroom , who thinks this is going to be some sort of pleasure cruise ! ’ |
| 30 | There seems to be some sort of implicit acknowledgement in there or even explicit acknowledgement that if we were able to justify the approach we could pursue it within a local plan and that does n't really square with what Mr Williamson has just said . |