Example sentences of "[det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the two principal actors glimpses his double in passing , as a reflection in a glass , and each stands to the other in the same relation — a relation which presupposes , as in many other Gothic texts , some sort of metempsychosis or rebirth . |
| 2 | Ursula figures as ‘ some sort of Hungarian countess ’ whose parents were estranged and who was to be estranged from her ominous father . |
| 3 | There she once sat in some sort of castle , or not , reading , for sure , the literature of Romanticism , and growing up to resemble — in the opinion of the writer 's aunt , the historian C. B. A. Behrens — a character out of Lermontov . |
| 4 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 5 | Some sort of tension I suppose . |
| 6 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 8 | She says she 's some sort of detective . |
| 9 | Theirs is a much more popular course , admittedly , but we must have some sort of chance , somewhere along the line . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Ca n't you get an emergency payment of some sort ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ she then began by saying , ‘ there must be some sort of council accommodation for people like you . |
| 12 | ‘ There are still some going and you 're bound to get preferential treatment of some sort . ’ |
| 13 | Some sort of a flat in Harwich , I think she said . |
| 14 | I now needed to make some sort of a decision . |
| 15 | ‘ Some sort of Housing Association thing maybe . ’ |
| 16 | One person living there has to be a Sally Ann person of some sort , but otherwise it 's just everyone with their own room but sharing kitchen and bathroom . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm still some sort of bird , ’ said Marina . |
| 18 | On the radio , Peter from Crawley whittering some sort of shit , what ? |
| 19 | Once this is achieved — and this , it is held , can be done by some sort of physicalist theory of mind with strong behaviourist elements — then most of the insoluble problems of early modern philosophy disappear . |
| 20 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 21 | I hope , heaven help me , to bring them into some sort of design and architecture later . |
| 22 | It does occur to Fukuyama that religion might have some sort of unease to express with all this , but he appears to conceive of religion under only two modes . |
| 23 | ‘ In the end , you do have to have some sort of juridical power if you are going to keep the institution together . ’ |
| 24 | Sir : Has anyone a suggestion about how , once we have made all our graduates pay for their own education through some sort of lifelong surtax , we should set about stopping those with any marketable skills and sense leaving the country as soon as they possibly can ? |
| 25 | David Mills , the erstwhile head of the Hazardous Chemical wing of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) — and well known for his criticisms of the lack of effective policing of what he defends as largely sound rules — says that placing high-temperature incinerators in some sort of hierarchy of risks is ‘ a terribly subjective business . ’ |
| 26 | It had originally hoped to make some sort of announcement last month ; but the practical complications have proved immense . |
| 27 | This suggests that the next MB Group foray will require fresh equity of some sort but investors may not find that too alarming . |
| 28 | Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement . |
| 29 | Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity . |
| 30 | Does Mr Bush foresee some sort of crisis during which his image will suffer unless boosted ? |