Example sentences of "[det] sort [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support was given because of the EEC 's desire to obtain some sort of self-sufficiency in uranium supplies . |
| 2 | The only conclusion that can be drawn from the above correspondence is that Stirling must have had some sort of operation in mind using parachutes during the period when he was returning from his second visit to Sirte . |
| 3 | I had heard stories about a failed invasion attempt in 1940 , but a Russian NCO insisted that the Germans had planned some sort of operation against Churchill in a remote part of Norfolk in the autumn of 1943 . |
| 4 | The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning . |
| 5 | Sociable Dorothy , although only seventeen years old , managed to infuse some sort of order into Isobel 's shattered life , hoping that soon Isobel would decide what she would do in the future , so that she herself could go back home to Wales , which , from the vantage point of Tollemarche , seemed infinitely cosy and desirable . |
| 6 | Melissa asked , but before anyone could give a coherent answer Monsieur Gauthier managed to impose some sort of order on the chaos and shooed his family , like so many cackling hens , towards the private quarters at the rear of the hotel . |
| 7 | It seems possible to suggest that for a sultan already disposed toward examining and reorganizing the institutions of state , pride in his newly-built medreses , as well as simply the fact of their existence , might well have acted as a strong spur to him to impose some sort of order upon and , implicitly , control over-the learned institution . |
| 8 | Considering the importance of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , we must expect that there will be some sort of link between the body clock and the eyes . |
| 9 | No , the beautiful objects could not be called proof , but they were a suggestion — the merest indication — that there might be some sort of link between their present owner , the burial mound , and the foresters ' custom described at the farm by Alice . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't like this abbey and I think there 's some sort of link between this place and Sir John Santerre . ’ |
| 11 | At its extreme among the small towns , this blurring of the rural-urban boundary extends over the whole settlement , as at Dragonby , and perhaps suggests some sort of link with the level of agricultural pre-occupation or functional specialization . |
| 12 | She supposed that Maria Luisa must have turned to Fernando in her despair when Steve had left Seville and that was how their affair had started ; now Fernando was so besotted it edged towards obsession and he was doing crazy things like holding her here against her will for some sort of revenge on Steve . |
| 13 | Clearly , he has some sort of affinity with the part of King Henry , but it does n't seem an actorly affinity . |
| 14 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 15 | Bryan Gould , to whom is owed an immense debt of gratitude for the injection of some sort of discussion of policy into the leadership contest , would be free to develop the flow of new ideas in the party . |
| 16 | Made some sort of mark by which she could be remembered . |
| 17 | There 's some sort of board behind his head and a towel or something round his forehead holding his head upright but the eyes Christ the eyes there 's nothing there and McDunn says Persistent Vegetative State they call it apparently ; Persistent Vegetative State and it looks it man it looks it . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , sir , it 's not so irrelevant because while he was in that curacy there was some sort of row about a boy in the youth club . |
| 19 | A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons . |
| 20 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 21 | Heseltine has taken to private chats with the backbench malcontents in a last effort to smooth some sort of passage for his proposals , but the word is that there remain a frustrating number of irreconcilables around . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , standards can provide some sort of framework for services , if they are credibly based upon existing practice rather than utopian ideals . |
| 23 | ‘ He had to go — there 's some sort of emergency at the Wharf , I think . |
| 24 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 25 | An important consequence of these practices for the agency ( connected with the familiar tendency to treat agency enforcement statistics as some sort of index of compliance ) is that the publication of yearbooks containing sample results provides a statistical portrayal of non-compliance . |
| 26 | ‘ No-o … these things are numbered and they 'll be cross-indexed to some sort of register of names . |
| 27 | or some sort of reassurance for it |
| 28 | I thought … look , I did n't mean it as some sort of slur on your character — there 's no crime in conceiving a child , for heavens sake ! ’ |
| 29 | I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout |
| 30 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |