Example sentences of "[art] sort of [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also important to perceive the National Insurance Act as the sort of response to the problem of unemployment that has remained dominant in Britain . |
| 2 | BT 's new alliance should also give it the sort of access to the American market it has long been seeking . |
| 3 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 4 | This is intended as a sort of coda to the movie : fade in to scenes of rooms strewn with festive remains , stacked dishes awaiting washing up , some of the more senior party-goers taking a nap . |
| 5 | Clearly the idea of water as a sanctity and an unfailing refuge from the Dark Lord had started to appeal to him ; and in ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ , accordingly , a sort of coda to The Lord of the Rings written c . |
| 6 | He 's known as Stewpot and is a sort of hero to the little kids . |
| 7 | And where the flags ended there rose three large stone arches , forming a sort of veranda to the front of a house , a real house with six windows visible , three above the flat roof of the stone veranda and three above that again . |
| 8 | The back corridor , which serves as a sort of backbone to the staff 's quarters of Darlington Hall , was always a rather cheerless affair due to the lack of daylight penetrating its considerable length . |
| 9 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 10 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 11 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 12 | The limited liability of the shareholders then appeared as a sort of concession to the creditors of the company rather than an arbitrary limitation on the normal liability imposed on partners in a business association . |
| 13 | It 's a sort of reference to the way the Messiah will come and rescue and save God 's people . |
| 14 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 15 | But he planted this gaol in the middle of Buckingham as a sort of rebuke to the townspeople . |
| 16 | It was a sort of cabaret to the main business of the halt , which was the consumption of quite a lot of a bear which had incautiously come within bowshot of Hrun . |
| 17 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 18 | When you say crafts more easily accessible , I think a lot of people regard craft as a sort of extension to the Women 's Institute . |
| 19 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |
| 20 | One was a sort of leak to the Sunday Times |
| 21 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |