Example sentences of "[art] sort of [noun] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believe that reality ‘ points beyond itself ’ in the sort of way that the pile of books points beyond itself , in that we know something must be holding it up or it would fall . |
| 2 | It was n't the sort of utterance that the orthodox policeman made in public . |
| 3 | ( c ) The removal of the unenforceable provision does not so change the character of the contract that it becomes " not the sort of contract that the parties entered into at all " . |
| 4 | For like a great many theories , it seems much more easily applicable to some kinds of text than to others ; one can see quite clearly its possible relevance to the sort of literature that the New Critics generally preferred to discuss , the lyric tradition from Shakespeare , roughly speaking , to Yeats ( Wimsatt and Brooks described their movement ( 1957 : 742 ) as ‘ neo-classic ’ ) ; but it is much less easy to see its relevance to the novel , or to much modern avant-garde writing . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the pillared structure that has been negotiated by our right hon. Friends is more likely to provide the sort of flexibility that the institutions will need , bearing in mind that Europe is standing , to some extent , on shifting sands and that none of the situations extant in the 1950s , at the birth of the Community , remains the same today ? |
| 6 | It is the Union of the United Kingdom that would be breached by the sort of proposals that the Labour party identifies . |
| 7 | In any case , no head is powerful enough to carry effectively the sort of responsibility that the management of the National Curriculum , in the context of the rest of the Act , will bring . |
| 8 | The only way to get proper growth is to have an economic recovery based on low inflation and proper investment , not on the sort of policies that the right hon. Gentleman has advocated . |
| 9 | Those are the sort of questions that the radio interviewer is asking you on behalf of the , the great British public . |
| 10 | This is the sort of CD that the ‘ ordinary ’ music-lover is likely to pass over in favour of something better known , on the assumption that ‘ German Harpsichord Music before Bach ’ would be of interest to the specialist only . |
| 11 | I think we ought to make some understanding of the sort of pressures that the man was under at the time when all this happened , and it happened very quickly . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |
| 13 | Something very similar is found in L'Esquiriel , in which the boy 's figurative euphemisms — squirrel , nest , eggs — are not simply comic as signifiers of " real " objects — penis , scrotum or pubic hair , testicles — but as signifiers of the sort of language that the girl has already talked about — vit , coilles , etc. — but is discouraged from using . |
| 14 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 15 | The LEA budget can not match the sort of investment that the fast food marketing chains make but , in promoting healthy eating , we can copy the best of their relatively inexpensive marketing and presentation techniques and use them to our advantage . |
| 16 | A new form of treatment , or a new and more enthusiastic doctor , may act as a morale-booster which has a beneficial effect on the immune system — the sort of effect that the psychoneuroimmunologists are currently studying . |
| 17 | The SD Ribbon is tall and slender , matched by a comparatively shallow fore-aft dimension which in earlier incarnations made the system rather unstable , and liable to topple forwards with the sort of provocation that the average three year-old would have found only moderately challenging . |
| 18 | It is the sort of agreement that the agent would normally make for you . |
| 19 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 20 | . . That 's the sort of thing that the government encouraged . |
| 21 | Course we do … that 's just the sort of thing that the scum would think is n't it . |