Example sentences of "[art] sort of [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 2 | Obviously , to even arrive at this sort of description , it is necessary to have found out by one kind of research or another , and by the added use of imagination , a lot about the sort of customers the advertising is trying to attract . |
| 3 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 4 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 5 | In recounting his hero 's feats of ratiocination ( a word he invented ) he had an anonymous , somewhat credulous , narrator following him everywhere and asking the sort of questions the reasonably intelligent reader might want to ask ; the original Watson . |
| 6 | After Beirut , Sir Patrick held a string of the sort of jobs the FO reserves for high flyers — postings to Washington and Cairo , private secretary to the then permanent under-secretary , Lord Gore-Booth , and then , in the mid-1970s , private secretary ( foreign affairs and defence ) to two prime ministers , Harold Wilson and James Callaghan . |
| 7 | The need to compete with television , and with the sort of films the Americans were making , meant that producers had to make spectaculars , which they could n't afford to do , or the sort of brave and adventurous pictures that the circuits were reluctant to accommodate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It may be that the Breton expedition was intended to keep up pressure on the French to make the sort of concessions the English would feel able to accept , but it is equally possible that the confused direction of English policy reflected conflicting influences at court . |
| 10 | And then just as you go in the sort of crossways the new Horse Fayre shopping precinct sort of thing |