Example sentences of "[art] sort of [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In I Know Where I 'm Going ( 1945 ) , Wendy Hiller plays a go-ahead girl who , when forced to choose between the sort of rural mysticism the filmmakers previously invoked in A Canterbury Tale and a ‘ good ’ marriage , is only reluctantly brought round to accept the former . |
| 2 | JIM Maxmin , Laura Ashley 's ebullient new American chief executive , may be just the sort of new blood the company needs , but his transatlantic marketing speak sits uncomfortably with the brand 's image . |
| 3 | The ‘ poisoned chalice ’ of a fundamentally weak economy actually constitutes an inhibition on the sort of spontaneous recovery the government is looking for — William Keegan in the Observer |
| 4 | His dummy , leading on the story of a northern factory which was allegedly poisoning its workers , had been marked down as brilliant and just the sort of hard-hitting stuff the paper wanted . |
| 5 | And there are few precedents for the sort of retroactive legislation the banks want . |
| 6 | But , along with the other twelves in this column , New Element 's single spits from the speakers with the sort of beefy sound the UK has always dreamed of achieving . |
| 7 | Instead of Farrell or Foster , Hammersmith settled for a flashy Post-Modern office and retail development which , while providing the sort of covered spaces the borough wanted , led nowhere architecturally . |
| 8 | Upon being reminded that Darlington was the sort of marginal constituency the Party may like to win she assumed then that the recipients must live in Tory wards . |
| 9 | He was in some ways a sort of humanoid Winnie the Pooh ( the bear with very little brain ) without any of Pooh 's more lovable characteristics — although no one in their right mind would tell him so ! |
| 10 | With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of us became synchronised , until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand . |