Example sentences of "the sort of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 2 | This is just the sort of problem the family historian has to be aware of . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | It was the sort of route the British had long been anxious to create , an all-red one , passing through either British-owned , British-run or British-controlled territory . |
| 5 | This was just the sort of attitude the paper wanted — in another context it would have been a good news story . |
| 6 | They were no less enthused when Mr Rice put up some film of seriously ordinary people , the sort of folk the average celebrity sees across a crash barrier . |
| 7 | He pauses , his mind running over the sort of life the couple led , the pressures , the way the split might have come . |
| 8 | They failed to make anything like the sort of headway the following day when they met the Wallabies in the rain at Newlands . |
| 9 | They have a picture of the sort of person the child should be and of the society he is being fitted for , and they aim to civilize an infant ‘ barbarian ’ , ruled by his wants and emotions , into that person . |
| 10 | They decided that he was only in it for himself and was not the sort of person the comrades wanted to have with them , and definitely not part of the consensus . |
| 11 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 12 | No one is ever going to believe you are totally innocent over this , and the sort of publicity the fuel blend failure attracted this afternoon is extremely damaging , as I 'm sure you are aware . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean , this is just the sort of shit the Editor would write . |
| 15 | The 18th at Augusta is the sort of hole the professionals would rather not have to play . |
| 16 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 17 | Finally , our researchers carried out a survey about the sort of services the audience wanted the BBC to provide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | How dare the council obtain stress counselling for the social workers , she asked , when the agonised parents of the nine children were under the sort of stress the social workers could n't even begin to imagine ? |
| 20 | ‘ Now then , ’ said Deuce , looking critically around the large sitting room which seemed to Harry to be the sort of place the Queen of England would live in , ‘ this wo n't do at all . ’ |
| 21 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 22 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To win affection , she discovered , you had to project the sort of image the other person wanted , and you only did that if the image appealed to you and if the other person was worth the effort . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was n't the sort of situation the etiquette books catered for . |
| 29 | More importantly , food molecules get into the mother 's breast milk , and babies that are exclusively breast-fed can be ill because of the sort of food the mother is eating . |
| 30 | Norwich , with their homely attitude , their small gates , their inability to pay huge transfers and their level egos , are the sort of club the Premier plotters had hoped to exclude . |