Example sentences of "a sort of [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I keep a journal that seems to be turning into a sort of year-book of the area , a little account of the way the seasons turn . |
| 2 | I think this is for a number of reasons — feminism does tend to post racism as a sort of subsidiary of patriarchy for example . |
| 3 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Jill , I see John as a sort of prisoner of war . |
| 5 | You know , if you need , it 's a sort of trip of a an evening . |
| 6 | She 'd do anything for us — and we both know that , which means I suppose that we have a sort of shell of security which goes with us everywhere . ’ |
| 7 | I sit down here in the absolute silence with my reflection , in a sort of state of mystery . |
| 8 | In this view the ‘ grammar ’ of the text is more evident in readers ' accounts of literature than in the actual literary works — unless , as Culler himself does in his study of Flaubert , one chooses to read a text as a sort of allegory of the reading process itself ( see Culler 1974 ) . |
| 9 | There was a rubber ball , a few of Emily 's textbooks and a sort of forcefield of nails resting heads down and points upwards towards the unseen burglar 's face . |
| 10 | Furthermore , because the state fulfils this function , the contradictions of the formation are ‘ condensed ’ in its own structure , so that it can be used as a sort of map of society at large . |
| 11 | It 's a sort of caricature of a machine . |
| 12 | That woman 's now approaching eighty three , eighty four years of age and she 's still national treasurer , so it gives you a sort of sample of the , the kind of people they have at the top , who are really their heart and soul in it . |
| 13 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 14 | She rose and took Rachaela 's child from the nurse with a gliding ‘ May I ? ’ , a sort of sleight of hand . |
| 15 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 16 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 17 | Starting from this background the painter now works toward the front by a sort of scheme of forms in which each object 's position is clearly indicated , both in relation to the definite background and to the other objects . ’ |
| 18 | I think here in the United Kingdom , we have to continue trying to urge our governments to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child , which is a sort of Bill of Rights for children . |
| 19 | And Celia Hazell is her niece , a sort of cousin of mine . ’ |
| 20 | Inevitably , the impression is not of unified excellence , but of a sort of march-past of British theatrical talent . |
| 21 | I had always seen myself as potentially a sort of protector of her ; and for the first time , that evening at Bourani , I saw that perhaps she had been , or could have been , a protector of me . |
| 22 | Well that could just be a sort of way of life . |
| 23 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 24 | The pickup configuration on the FGM is the redoubtable twin humbucker and single coil option , a sort of hybrid of Gibson and Fender 's different pickup philosophies . |
| 25 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 26 | I mean it 's it 's portrayed the the flats as a sort of nest of of criminals you know . |
| 27 | I know this I just know about about a sort of friend of ours is making money meanwhile in Germany . |
| 28 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 29 | Of these two operas , the one is a remarkable spiral set of variations on a theme , and the other , a sort of whirlpool of thematic reference and counter-reference . |
| 30 | I could n't quite tell , and as a sort of curator of the afternoon , it made me nervous . |