Example sentences of "you can sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can sort of tell . ’ |
| 2 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 3 | When you when you 're reading this through , you 're having a quick skim through , you can can you can cross out , you can sort of totally obliterate |
| 4 | But within that probation period you can sort of like get dismissed for any time quite easily . |
| 5 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 6 | If you think we 're doing too much you can sort of say , Ooh hang on . |
| 7 | Now Jean was pleased because I do sequence dancing which I learnt with my husband , and so now this coming September when we start back again , once a month I 'm going to teach some sequence dancing in the hope that some young ones would , will hear of it and , and join because then once you can sort of get them involved with one thing you may sort of get good numbers . |
| 8 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 9 | But I mean it 's up to you if results are very simple you can sort of say , Oh well sixty percent went this way and forty |
| 10 | Er oh keep these numbers small so you can sort of play about on the number line more easily , and ten minus , minus ten take away minus four . |
| 11 | So you , you can sort of think about it . |
| 12 | If you can sort of say well that has been proven , this is the research , this is the system , this is the model , theorists actually enjoy that because they think well this is n't just somebody 's gut reaction , this is something that somebody spends a long time actually thinking about it considering . |
| 13 | Then you talk about erm how how the characters that Constance and Kate have different sides and then you can sort of . |
| 14 | you can sort of chair that that |
| 15 | Yeah yeah certainly , erm I think that 's er that 's good , well if , if you can , if you can access it er in some way informally or , or , you know , it 's probably un unlikely that you 'd get too much stuff in writing as you say but , you know , er it could be very er productive and interesting erm tt erm can that sort of thing , particularly if you can get it in terms of quotes from people , you can sort of , you know , make a project look quite nice because it looks like if you do all this , you know , sort of stuff with the attitude scales it , it 's er it gives you lots of nice numerical data but er |
| 16 | you know because some people claim not to , blind and sighted , er you know and then , then maybe you can sort of say well , you know , what sort of things do you see , what sort of things do you feel and then get on to something specific |
| 17 | er but erm that kind of thing where you can sort of scale the responses in some way or say how many times a week or say how many times in the last year or how many times since Christmas or something erm fine yeah you can do , you can do stats on that , you can hopefully find P less than point O five etcetera etcetera between the different groups |
| 18 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 19 | Now sometimes they might give it you as sixteen to the three quarters and you can sort of read that off , What am I doing here ? |
| 20 | But that I mean I you know you can sort of screw that up . |
| 21 | If you put it in a basin then you can sort of |
| 22 | I know , so I mean the thing is that we 've always said have n't ya as long as you can sort of get 'em down |
| 23 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 24 | but , but the thing is if , if the traffic 's gon na be heavy , if it thinks we 're gon na get stuck in traffic , if you 've got a G T I you 're that type of driver you 've got that type of power , you can sort of pass and save a bit of time |
| 25 | Well I do n't know whether you can sort of , tape in advance can you ? |
| 26 | And you can sort of join in the the church group . |
| 27 | And the people who run the shop are runners themselves and you can sort of go to them and ask their advice on all sorts of things |
| 28 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |
| 29 | You can you can sort of just go over that line and put equals so many degrees . |
| 30 | Or if you can sort of |