Example sentences of "[det] sort of thing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it , can we attribute this sort of thing to the erm areas of drought , the areas of flooding that are occurring in various parts of the world at the moment , and all these sorts of things , and we have branches looking into this . |
| 2 | Is this sort of thing on the increase because the authorities are more aware of the need to control and manipulate the photographers , or to present them with carefully chosen opportunities and photographers are under increasing pressures ? |
| 3 | I wonder why people hung this sort of thing on the wall to be looked at day after day . |
| 4 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we 'll be able to get back to normal and replace the plaque , although we 'll have to make sure it 's bolted down so no one does this sort of thing in the future . |
| 6 | I am hopeful that it does not impinge upon the game 's great amateur status — I leave that sort of thing to the likes of Naas Botha and David Campese . |
| 7 | And you give that sort of thing to the estate agent . |
| 8 | He says that they should leave that sort of thing to the police . |
| 9 | The interview ended shortly and our Elt said something about how perhaps he ought n't say that sort of thing on the Northwestern TV station … |
| 10 | And on a major project like that it might be sensible to bill that sort of thing into the fees at the at the outset . |
| 11 | But I never ever had a running line , although they did have an order for so many like that and I 'd keep the patterns and the gages and if they wanted any more later on , you know , I used to do that sort of thing for the sake of me customers and all that . |
| 12 | But you ca n't guarantee that , er , and once the supermarket developments er , have gone , then you 'll drop off down , down again , and again you 're affected by the rece recession , whereas people wo n't replace things like weighbridges , er , automatic weighing machines that sort of thing during the recession , if you come out of recession , then you might get , and you say you might get some increase in fees in that , that area . |
| 13 | You must have read plenty about that sort of thing in the papers these days . |
| 14 | We never used to do that sort of thing in the Store ! |
| 15 | And he used to erm things you do n't see in allotments today , he used to build the clamps for the pits for storing winter potatoes and turnips and that sort of thing in the garden . |
| 16 | But perhaps you do n't need that sort of thing in the old lee-gitimate theayter . |
| 17 | The club was liberal about that sort of thing in the old days apparently . |
| 18 | There 's been a lot of that sort of thing in the town lately , and the police … ’ |
| 19 | yeah but I mean , I it , I when I 'm fucking pissed , I ca n't sober , that 's why I probably think they 're , they 're not pulling a plonker cos I 've done that sort of thing in the past had me fucking climbing on bikes , swinging off the side of the building . |
| 20 | Better to learn that sort of thing before the scenes , and what goes on behind them , are all your responsiblity . |
| 21 | You can do the same sort of thing with the ‘ personnel ’ information , though here you have to make rather more assumptions . |
| 22 | yeah exactly the same sort of thing with the front room one and the kitchen one you just did |