Example sentences of "sort of [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 2 | He looked sort of sternly amused , if there was such an expression , and really rather imposing , and as he continued to regard her she saw there was a glitter in his eyes , which could have been amusement , she supposed , if one were very optimistic . |
| 3 | Done the A squared , and you said , well , let's do the B squared cos that gives a positive , then you got a little bit sort of not sure of which ones you 'd done and which ones you had n't . |
| 4 | Sort of not fat |
| 5 | But , but they really are quite quite difficult you know , and almost you want your sort of most skilled people er doing that really erm |
| 6 | I should think Alex has become a sort of completely different boy , of when you think how , of when he first had him |
| 7 | Er what sort of just ordinary ? |
| 8 | Right so really then if , if we 're looking at both yourself and , and your wife , you 've actually got sort of just those five policies |
| 9 | No , no I was gon na say some you know , just sort of just some ideas are good but I tell you have n't they got some beautiful erm candle holders around this year some really unusual ones . |
| 10 | No it 's okay not to worry , do n't worry about it , it 's alright , we 'll come and pick it up then so if we come any time after sort of tomorrow brilliant , that 's great , thanks every so much for your help , bye . |
| 11 | Romania in 1944 was typical of the sort of partially industrialized society which became Communist and then suffered exaggerated , one-sided industrial development as a result . |
| 12 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 13 | So the acceleration here is sort of pretty sharp acceleration to start with , then a fairly steadyish acceleration , |
| 14 | You get sort of extra long |
| 15 | The Postlethwait method brings to everyday work some of the vividness of the lead lesson , but presents individually in a carrel , and offers what is really a sort of heavily guided " discovery " . |
| 16 | In fact although sometimes the rate of progress or the pace of technology seems sort of frustratingly slow if you look at what has actually changed , what has been achieved over the last five years , it 's quite incredible . |
| 17 | So that if you say to a primary teacher ‘ Here 's a new toy , here 's a new idea , why not try it ? ’ then they 've got the opportunity to do so without sort of dramatically changing things . |
| 18 | He would have erm , if , he 'd seen the erm those two bi bits in that door , or there 's some o of a sort of slightly wider than other a little bit , he 'd have gone ! |
| 19 | Or if anybody is sort of slightly backward |
| 20 | And then we go beyond that , and develop it into this sort of slightly murky negative area . |
| 21 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 22 | And like a big body on small legs , i in a away they 're sort of rather wobbling and crumbling . |
| 23 | It 's sort of rather plain cream on the back |
| 24 | Do people sort of artificially put on their best behaviour , as it were , or something like that , and thereby give a sort of rather distorted impression as to what 's really going on . |
| 25 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 26 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
| 27 | You , you did get funny things like that that er that sort of rather lightened things . |
| 28 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 29 | But the smaller they are , the greater the probability within them of the sort of unacceptably crude proportionality that is furnished by the STV in Ireland and of consequent unfairness to all but the bigger parties . |
| 30 | Sort of past half way . |