Example sentences of "sort of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had soon knitted all sorts of things for her , such as hats , teapot cosies and iron holders . |
| 2 | As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal . |
| 3 | It may be wondered why it is necessary , or even advantageous , to have two sorts of unit for lexical semantics . |
| 4 | ‘ I kept trying to find all sorts of reasons for doing so . |
| 5 | I found all sorts of reasons for it , like not being there when my father died . |
| 6 | There are all sorts of reasons for giving the less direct answer : B may want to establish that the fact that the reading was not done was not due to laziness . |
| 7 | As [ 15 ] and [ 16 ] show , there are all sorts of reasons for constraining the interpretation of another speaker 's utterance . |
| 8 | Bob and I had all sorts of schemes for us all to meet , including asking you to come to Edinburgh as a halfway house , but we realised that actually that is rather more than halfway for you , and would n't be at all easy . |
| 9 | However , as it is the only qualification in this area , we have endless problems in discouraging people from attributing to it all sorts of accreditations for which it was not designed and have to point out that it does not qualify people to interpret , give advice or act on behalf of others . |
| 10 | There are all sorts of options for how people can respond to one another when they first meet . |
| 11 | Low-voltage lighting has all sorts of advantages for outdoor use , the main one being its safety — you wo n't get a shock if you stick your garden fork through the cable , for example . |
| 12 | 'Mill 's short-passing game was certainly not suited to the conditions , whereas Chiddingfold 's long balls out of defence caused all sorts of problems for the visiting defence . |
| 13 | Having reached the high-water mark in his claim for the nature and purpose of the birth of Jesus , Matthew goes on to cause all sorts of problems for the modern reader . |
| 14 | And then , and that , that may solve all sorts of problems for you , if you were going to do that sort of seven days a week , let's say from seven in the morning until , I do n't know , nine at nigh , at night or something . |
| 15 | It has 66 courses and 75 hotels , motels and condominiums offering a wide selection of accommodation , with all sorts of deals for the visiting golfer . |
| 16 | Their ability to demand high wages was by 1790 causing some employers to dislodge their hold by introducing machinery : " we are determined to destroy all sorts of Masheens for printing in the Kingdom " , runs one of the milder sentences in an anonymous letter from the journeymen received by one employer . |
| 17 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 18 | and er we moved over there because erm the Department was splitting at the seams really , because immediately there was erm , the war was over and there were all sorts of plans for erm for development and that sort of thing and erm as I 've already mentioned there were two , only two graduates in the whole of the Education Department who was Mr and er his Personal Assistant and erm then after the war there were three graduates appointed , all of them from erm , ex service men , there was Arthur who was erm Lieutenant Commander in the Navy , there was erm Bud , I ca n't remember his Christ proper christian name . |
| 19 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 20 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 22 | If you have the possibility of both services in a kitchen , you could opt for a gas cook top and an electric oven ; or vice versa ; or a mixture of both gas and electric plates to hedge bets should anything go wrong with one or other service , or to take advantage of both sorts of energy for different cooking needs ( slow simmering ; fast boiling etc . ) |
| 23 | stuff , erm , I 'll I 've got a disk that does interesting little joined up lines , and there 's one where you can just put numbers in yourself and it 'll draw all sorts of pictures for you |
| 24 | There are two possible sorts of explanation for the difficulties we have in recalling dreams . |
| 25 | Even more usefully , from a film-maker 's point of view , untimely celebrity death precludes the risk of libel , thus opening up all sorts of opportunities for dramatic license . |
| 26 | There are all sorts of opportunities for this . |
| 27 | There is a great temptation to capture all sorts of information for the sake of it and to keep the same information in several different locations . |
| 28 | I 'm quite sure that it was a sort of catalyst for him , to prove that he could do something like that . ’ |
| 29 | I it 's a , sort of entertainment for me ! |
| 30 | Ask him to make some sort of crutch for me . |