Example sentences of "sort of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one is ever going to believe you are totally innocent over this , and the sort of publicity the fuel blend failure attracted this afternoon is extremely damaging , as I 'm sure you are aware . |
| 2 | How dare the council obtain stress counselling for the social workers , she asked , when the agonised parents of the nine children were under the sort of stress the social workers could n't even begin to imagine ? |
| 3 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 4 | Would you agree with Mr that on this sort of raid the adrenaline 's flowing ? |
| 5 | ‘ In a funny sort of way the injury helped . |
| 6 | in a round about sort of way the Head |
| 7 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 8 | The 18th at Augusta is the sort of hole the professionals would rather not have to play . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 10 | The grunt was expressive , and Patrick immediately knew what sort of friend the man thought him to be . |
| 11 | Obviously with this sort of music the ideas are n't going to be : ‘ Yes , my girlfriend is a nurse and I would like a job in the pit ’ . |
| 12 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 13 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 14 | I see , so coming back to er making the pills and silver on it and gold , was this er sort of foe the aristocracy more ? |
| 15 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 16 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 17 | Even better , ask around and find out what sort of person the interviewer is , his/her likes and dislikes . |
| 18 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 19 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 20 | It was the sort of route the British had long been anxious to create , an all-red one , passing through either British-owned , British-run or British-controlled territory . |
| 21 | In other areas , however , land could be used for arable , arable and pasture , pasture , or wood , and how it was used depended to a large extent on the proximity of settlements and in what sort of economy the local farmers were engaged . |
| 22 | To win affection , she discovered , you had to project the sort of image the other person wanted , and you only did that if the image appealed to you and if the other person was worth the effort . |
| 23 | The usual way of finding out what sort of Christmas the trade had , or what the high street thinks of the year just finished , is to do a ring round of booksellers and publishers and then report the opinions thus canvassed . |
| 24 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 25 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 26 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 27 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help you with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 28 | In this sort of situation the local Social Services Department may be able to help with many practical problems , such as caring for a dependent relative . |
| 29 | It was n't the sort of situation the etiquette books catered for . |
| 30 | It was this sort of situation the Agency committee had in mind in justifying its activities because ‘ provincial associations have become inert and inefficient ’ with the result that local groups concluded ‘ their own individual exertions were too little sustained by those of similar bodies elsewhere to be of real utility ’ . |