Example sentences of "[adj] sort of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stood out because we had a er , different sort of flower on , me and our kid . |
| 2 | ‘ They say he 's one sort of person when he 's out in the open among people — he can be very sweet — but that he 's a different sort of person altogether behind the walls of his own house . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a different sort of life out there , to some extent . |
| 4 | A Minoan fresco from Akrotiri on Thera shows a different sort of ship again , with a lightly-built superstructure amidships covered by an awning and offering some shelter from showers and the beating sun to varying numbers of seated passengers . |
| 5 | No , different sort of thing altogether . |
| 6 | It depends if it 's the wrong sort of fog again . |
| 7 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 8 | You 're going to need some sort of scale well . |
| 9 | if property is equalized then the economy will so he uses some sort of incentive argument here and maybe some sort of undertones here that inequalities are necessary to make the worse off better off than they would have been without them , but he thinks the uneducated poor may well be too stupid |
| 10 | But assuming we it does come to some sort of settlement ultimately , are you saying then that you still doubt whether there 's that political will ? |
| 11 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was in some sort of store-room rather than the garage . |
| 13 | The formulation and implementation of a national energy policy was the first priority of the new president in domestic politics , and , as he saw it , some sort of test both of the governability of the United States and of his exercise of leadership , ‘ Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Some sort of to-do out there , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I 'll push you into some sort of position where I can overtake and then tow you to a garage . ’ |
| 16 | Half the Dale believes him to be some sort of wizard out of the western mountains , and folk such as Bragad will use the rumours . |
| 17 | Income seems more closely related to whether or not people have ever used any form of credit than any other characteristic : the higher someone 's income ( at least up to a certain level ) , the more likely they are to have used at least some sort of credit sometime . |
| 18 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 19 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 20 | There 's some sort of graphs here . |
| 21 | I like to have some sort of colour down as an underpainting first to kill the white of the paper — a similar process to an oil painter , and I start by wetting the paper with an old one and a half inch household painting brush and then quickly slash in some colour which slightly relates to what I see . |
| 22 | Sometimes we know people very well , but it still helps does n't it if somebody else comes in that there 's some sort of system there that somebody else who takes over your section can find out exactly who 's received what . |
| 23 | If on the basis of the best information the system is seen to be heading for some sort of catastrophe then people not unnaturally lose confidence in it . |
| 24 | Werewolf seemed to be conducting some sort of slaughter out there . |
| 25 | Is it possible Geoffrey Hoskin to have some sort of sort out , where people could be encouraged , compensated perhaps to leave their villages and towns and go back to the Republic from which their parents or grandparents originally came ? |
| 26 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 27 | We , we put together some sort of words on anyway , we 've er |
| 28 | So this some sort of deal perhaps there which we think is a reasonable an and fair balance in the end of the committee . |
| 29 | Mozart had every reason to suspect that he would be able to gain some sort of appointment there . |
| 30 | It 's some sort of fraud all right . |