Example sentences of "not [art] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I keep telling you , Anne , that 's not the sort of thing I 'm looking for . |
| 3 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 4 | Reckless heroism , very clearly , is not the sort of quality he admires . |
| 5 | It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I was terrified when it happened , ’ she recalls , ‘ but I 'm not the sort to be beaten . |
| 7 | The Gombe rainforest is not the sort of Eden we might fondly imagine . |
| 8 | And Hong Kong is not the sort of story likely to have the traditional happy ending . |
| 9 | It has had , since its inception , an adversarial relationship with governments and its activists are not the sort of people with whom Conservative governments easily make friends , particularly when they block the outflow pipe of nuclear processing plants such as the one at Sellafield in Cumbria . |
| 10 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 11 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 12 | This is not the sort of complaint one would expect after years in which Downing Street was running riot by appointing one maverick after another . |
| 13 | It was not the sort of place you would choose to be born in if you had such a choice , but Kylie Ann Minogue was born there anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's not the sort of girl who wants to make political statements with her music . |
| 15 | Many thanks for the script , it said , but it was not the sort of thing that Sky was planning at the moment . |
| 16 | A niece of the former Labour minister Douglas Jay and first cousin of Peter Jay , the former British ambassador in Washington who is now the BBC 's economics editor , her ratings went up in certain quarters when she once said of Mrs Thatcher : ‘ She is not the sort of person one would invite to dinner . ’ |
| 17 | He was not the sort of evangelist who would have been content with a mere shallow ‘ decision for Christ ’ . |
| 18 | Can not the sort of difficulty which the theist experiences in terms of describing God , for instance , as personal and impersonal , be justified by pointing out that attempting to think beyond the limits of thought is bound to entail stretching ordinary language beyond what it would normally bear ? |
| 19 | Now you know — everyone on the paper knows — I 'm not the sort of proprietor who meddles with editorial policy . ’ |
| 20 | George Orwell was warning everyone of the plight of poverty-stricken masses , whose only salvation was socialism and not the sort recommended by vegetarian cranks in sandals . |
| 21 | A large , ungainly and abrasive man , he was not the sort of material to make the grade in the SAS in the normal way , but Stirling obviously had his reasons for taking him on . |
| 22 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 23 | That is not the sort of thing that is going to make anyone 's reputation . |
| 24 | Not the sort of thing you want to worry about . |
| 25 | It was not the sort I had seen in West Africa , with side-windows missing and as many chickens on board as people , but as plush as the one that had recently taken our Parish Fellowship for an evening drive around Cheshire . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the sort of time that people generally call — ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not the sort of thing that generally happens . ’ |
| 28 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 29 | It is not the sort of financial assessment which would find quarter in many other areas of economics . |
| 30 | Certainly , this is not the sort of behaviour that modern judges have in mind when they refer to young thugs as behaving ‘ like animals ’ . |