Example sentences of "sort [prep] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Or it could mean cutting Russian exports , which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need .
2 I think it enables young , the young people that have been coming to those meetings to find out too the problems that councillors have and local authorities have , in actually trying to carry out the sorts of things they want .
3 We seem to be gathering all sorts of things we do n't need .
4 The opposition , predictably , accused the Government of all sorts of things which spelt death to the arts , giving Arts Minister , Tim Renton a hard time .
5 the , the erm , there are tents and all sorts of things you said they were comparatively new , erm because remember that big
6 Some pink pills or something but there was all sorts you know hat they used to say put your feet in hot in water , mustard and er fall down the stairs or go on a bus , they used to tell you all sorts of things you know to , and er anyway that 's what happened to me .
7 apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got
8 You do not need to list everything you own , but it will help if you know what sorts of things you have .
9 Yes so they they say you know there 's all sorts of things you do farms and you get into the country and you do land as well but I reckon ninety eight percent of of their people are doing houses so
10 er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm
11 So , those are the sorts of things I take it that , that er we do think are a more interesting way of individuating people than their bodily .
12 All sorts of things I did n't know how to eat .
13 The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at .
14 The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at .
15 Multilabel office and all sorts of things it knows about .
16 For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time .
17 The pressure here is to consider the sorts of circumstances which do , in fact , coerce people in these sorts of ways .
18 I think it 's sort of employer education sort of guidance and more sort of organizational skills , it 's those sorts of groupings I think .
19 I think those are the sorts of differences I observe and they 're not to do with whether I 'm a protestant or a Catholic , but what kind of human being I am almost .
20 But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects .
21 Observe that the sorts of inferences we have been discussing are not sanctioned by the form of language used .
22 Costs from more routine accidents build up , and it is these sorts of accidents which have been costed for the HSE study .
23 If you feel it will be difficult to stand back sufficiently to carry out the sorts of procedures we have discussed in this chapter , then it may be best to avoid them .
24 At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes .
25 I mean , when you 're actually directing a piece of work , and it does n't matter who you 're working with … they know constantly how you feel about it , and that 's sub-text as well as text , and it 's osmosis ; and a lot of it is very elliptical and oblique and subtle , and it goes on all of the time ; and you know from them how they 're taking it , how they 're working and what they think of it by exactly similar sorts of processes you get those feedbacks , and you see the work .
26 So these are the sorts of problems we get .
27 As long as some specific predictive content can be given to the notion of implicature , this is a genuine and substantial solution to the sorts of problems we have just illustrated .
28 The following examples illustrate the sorts of problems we encountered when we tried to apply our notion of ‘ shared tasks ’ in these classrooms .
29 You may be familiar with those sorts of stories which say my convent life was hell with the Sisters of Mercy er that kind of story about er church organisations that absolute not to show er Christian qualities in the way that they are organised is quite true that often Christian organisations do find it hard to show forgiveness .
30 No , no I think it 's just that er , then your sorts of signs I think to indicate that , that was a no ball because it was , I 'm sure an unintentional er beamer and er , they still did well really to get a bit of back on here so .
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