Example sentences of "sort of [noun] but [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 2 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 3 | I hate that sort of stuff but it pays and money from that goes towards my travel and equipment costs . ’ |
| 4 | The trouble is their sons do n't want to know ; they 're not prepared to live that sort of life but they ca n't find other work . |
| 5 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 6 | You wo n't sink into this sort of flooring but it has a neat appearance and will pull together a disparate collection of furniture and styles and make a roomful of old things look firmly set in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's an elusive sort of bird but he exists . ’ |
| 8 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 9 | Er this is alright we 've done it informally in the past , you know I 've talked to many clients some of which I handle some of which I do n't and always the question is er are we giving erm a service that we can improve on , if you look dealing with er are there any points you 'd like to raise with me , all these sort of questions but it 's all very unstructured er and sometimes it 's er er results in us having an action plan emerging , sometimes not . |
| 10 | She was a jolly sort of girl but I do n't think our parents would have kept her if they had known the way she talked to us , and the things she told us . |
| 11 | She was very frightened and felt she was dying , irreversibly something was happening , there was a sort of imminence but she could not pinpoint it . |
| 12 | He looks a very strong sort of person but he walks |
| 13 | Ha the information that we 've put out so far were our second reprint of the er of the black booklet of which there 'll be twelve thousand , they are quite an expensive item and , but our feeling was that er in order to sell the thing you 've got to do it properly and er spending money does n't come easily but er er in order to market the thing er thought that was the , the way to go and we 've done other things , stickers and badges and posters and so on and so forth , the normal sort of things but we 've really tried to spread these around the country and get the message that it 's a vibrant young er interesting fun thing to be involved in for young people . |
| 14 | Same sort of scenario but there 's a lot more of them on this is it ? |
| 15 | Alain made no sort of sound but his hand tightened to steel and Jenna felt somewhat vindicated . |
| 16 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 17 | I , I think it 's quite a , an interestingly pretty plant in the right sort of situation but it is a wild plant , it is a native plant and it gets big . |
| 18 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 19 | I do n't think stress would cause this sort of pain but it 'll certainly make it feel worse , there 's no doubt about that . |
| 20 | No nothing on that , that sort of line but you |
| 21 | But no , she 's gone for this promotion in work and er even though she does n't think she 's much chance of getting it because there 's two permanent lads there that really you know would be next in line rather than her sort of thing but she 's you know , she feels she 's done her bit and that , you know , it 's worth going for and like I said to her you might as well ! |
| 22 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 23 | He bought the girls a bloody great not , well it 's like that sort of thing but it 's a big one . |
| 24 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 25 | I started by assuming it was the usual sort of thing but I 've made inquiries with our people in Narborough and I 'm not sure it was anything sexual . |
| 26 | Er , we have some points that we want taken on board such as the relevance of CPMs in the primary care team each team and that sort of thing but I do n't think they are fundamental differences , they are , as I say , dialogues towards consensus . |
| 27 | The caves of Bétharram , a short way out of Lourdes on the main road to Pau , are not my sort of caves but I will at least mention them . |