Example sentences of "sort of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 2 | Climbed over the railings when the place was shut and did all sorts of things to the statues and the balconies . |
| 3 | Wildlife experts working on Rhum were very keen indeed to introduce all sorts of things to the island , including sea eagles from Norway . |
| 4 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 5 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 6 | But you have to admit , it 's for the dog 's own protection to wear muzzle , as they can pick up all sorts of things in the street which can poison them . |
| 7 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |
| 8 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 9 | The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . |
| 10 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 11 | You 're able to do all sorts of things in the sky . |
| 12 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 13 | Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers . |
| 14 | Great houses have many different sorts of gardens in the total plan . |
| 15 | As to the judiciary , the prevailing Home Office belief was that the need was simply to get the judges to grasp the facts , revealed by criminological research and the experience of the prison and probation services , about the suitability of various sorts of offenders for the different forms and lengths of sentence which were at their disposal . |
| 16 | All sorts of shoes from the West . ’ |
| 17 | Everything went to plan in the opening stages with the Republic piling forward and causing all sorts of anxiety in the Lithuanian defence . |
| 18 | Well , they can come in to the church , as many of them do , erm and I just say to them well , you know , do you respect this place and fine , it 's a place where we do n't chuck anybody out who comes into church for all sorts of reasons during the day when the church is open , you know , people come in , and there are many people like the ones we 've been talking about , who are in desperate need , and we just ask them to respect certain fairly mild rules they can always go out in the churchyard and smoke , but in the building itself we say no smoking and no drinking . |
| 19 | The ethos of the force therefore lends itself to gender differences in police work , and so popular are beliefs about the different capabilities of policemen and women , that some policemen shy away from handling these sorts of cases on the view that they are less able than women colleagues , and many policewomen adopt these notions as self-typifications . |
| 20 | Here , by the harbour , there are all sorts of sounds from the docks and the ships , one gets to ignore them . ’ |
| 21 | On the whole , people use language in a , in a rather sloppy form , it 's ambiguous , they , they know what they mean , other people know what they mean but they put in all sorts of inferences by the way in which it 's phrased or erm the way in which the words string together or past experience of the person . |
| 22 | But there are other sorts of ruins along the via , as well . ’ |
| 23 | I would suggest that the two sorts of opacity in a computer that have been discussed here are at least potentially interesting explications of that fact : modularity and program-level reduction . |
| 24 | Well there 's no question but which therapists and people of medical profession have come across cases of people who have indeed been scarred for their whole lives and and found it very difficult to maintain trust and relationships and and be able to achieve their potential as a result of the sorts of situations that they endured , and perhaps we 're more understanding about those sorts of areas of the human need to be able to express anxiety and to feel that to express fears is is not something that 's going to overwhelm people that are around us , so that adults who are in the care of children , be they teachers , or parents , or child care workers , can allow children to express their feelings so that they do n't need to hold on to them and thereby increase the fears that they have . |
| 25 | There are two sorts of contact with the public , and how those neighbourhood police who see themselves as having a service role attempt to engender friendly and informal relations depends upon the type of contact . |
| 26 | ‘ Besides , I saw eggs and cheese and all sorts of stuff in the cupboard when I spent the night there . |
| 27 | And erm although there 's been sort of all sorts of stuff in the press , have you seen all this stuff in the press about endowments ? |
| 28 | These two projects — on the one hand a wish to investigate the constraining influence of social wholes , and on the other a desire to understand the shaping power of individuals — answer to different sorts of concern with the social world . |
| 29 | This is because the pen as an input device can be used to facilitate many other sorts of interaction besides the input of freehand text . |
| 30 | ‘ And it raises all sorts of questions about the car crash , does n't it ? ’ |