Example sentences of "be [adv] sort of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 2 | Most Boehme works that come up are later than this circa 1804 pot ( though , oddly enough , with one sold in Delaware , and one at Christie 's , this was the third sold in a month ) , are generally sort of ‘ provincial Philadelphia ’ in style , and lack the soaring and presence of this one , which went to an Eastern private collector for $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 3 | Well there are a number of spaces that are in positions which could be used by disabled , in other words , they are not sort of , sandwich tight against other spaces and what 's happened in the past is that erm when a need has arisen an and when perhaps there 's been er generally a bungalow that has been er , occupied by somebody who 's disabled then the housing department have erm modified that space I mean , wha what we 've actually done is we 've er , taken a certain amount of block paving out but put back some block paved logo , sort of , standard white er symbol that erm that identifies disabled space and and , and that space is actually earmarked for that person , and it could happen in a variety of different locations erm it 's just that there 's probably not so much point in doing it until you know that there is er a specific need . |
| 4 | and then maybe only one or two or three other interests you got you go to into very deeply the rest are just sort of friends |
| 5 | And these are just sort of piling up together well they they can all be if we choose it right we can make it usually make it one . |
| 6 | There are some things which are just sort of have a fairly short lifetime , both in terms of the interest of the event and also the , also the interest of the press in it in which case you just have to use your judgement . |
| 7 | So they 're effectively sort of grants and ye in , in that way . |
| 8 | I do n't know whether it 's cos they 're so sort of worked up that they 've got no control over what they 're doing but umm . |
| 9 | Usually , couple of years and you get , you get erm a promotion , but there 's nothing , and the , the jobs that are coming up they 're erm they 're already sort of la allocated to people been given promotion . |
| 10 | They 're just sort of painted on — you know , like black dots . |
| 11 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |
| 12 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 13 | That 's really all we 're doing we 're just sort of counting how many would we have if we have twelve add twelve . |
| 14 | you 're most of the time you 're getting it right cos this is just making the right sort of guess and you 're seeing the sort of When it gets to the awkward ones y you 're just sort of Well maybe it 's that , maybe its something else . |
| 15 | I mean if they 're just sort of four foot things I mean it 's not you know I think . |
| 16 | Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting |
| 17 | Well yes Philip 's a student but they 're just sort of paying , it 's just rented sort of thing but erm |
| 18 | yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ? |
| 19 | they 're just sort of shooting |
| 20 | But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility |
| 21 | I I du n no I I I ca n't work out cos all of Dan 's girlfriends yeah Amber , Sonia and Honey most people have all said I do n't think she 's right for Dan and you know I ca n't I ca n't work out whether they actually think that or they 're just sort of saying that because he does n't talk to them as much or something , I do n't know . |
| 22 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |
| 23 | Erm the work with two students , very often the one that I 'm not working with can be learning more , because they 're not sort of , ooh he 's gon na ask me a question . |
| 24 | Give you millions of examples , but they 're just examples , they 're not sort of showing you the shape of it . |
| 25 | We 're not the kind of thing that attracts government funding cos we 're not sort of we do n't go along with the architectural you know , the architectural establishment really insists that everything should be exactly just so . |
| 26 | you 're not sort of ploughing through you 're you know , you 're picking it up and your bringing it I like the way you the way you 're assimilating it . |
| 27 | That you 're not sort of , Oh just I 'll memorize this lot . |
| 28 | I mean you 're you 're not sort of right in the centre of town , but |
| 29 | yeah , Cliff was saying that er , he said all yeah , he said he 's er he goes through the if , if you 're not sort of paying attention to him you |
| 30 | You 're not sort of good in it ooh look at washing blowing Sue ! |