Example sentences of "[adv] sort [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in terms of Community budget so this Environment Committee and Conservatives gone down to below sort of seventy two million so we are not actually getting any sort of . |
| 2 | And what the response was to it because , well I I did try it merely sort of to experience it , and I do n't think that it was an addictive experience and |
| 3 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 4 | so people were constantly sort of shoving this aside and walking through . |
| 5 | Long sort of yeah . |
| 6 | He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 8 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 9 | It 's got lots , it 's got hydrogen and it 's got lots of carbons in and these carbons when they do n't burn completely , when they only sort of partly burn , they form carbon monoxide instead of dioxide . |
| 10 | Because erm even when radio came er there was only sort of chamber music on the radio you know . |
| 11 | Cos at that time only sort of wealthy people might have had cars , is that |
| 12 | Well there 's only sort of erm I mean who else is round here doing it ? |
| 13 | Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam , |
| 14 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 15 | whether it 's the afternoon or an evening or weekend it 's still the same price , but the , the mental patient actually employs you , you 're not employed by the hospital , but they can only give you ten hours a week which is five session so that 's only sort of twenty seven quid a week so you 're |
| 16 | Well you see nine hundred pound that 's only sort of your half yearly rent is it ? |
| 17 | because you only sort of need to buy one set of speakers |
| 18 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 19 | mm but there 's only sort of five points that divides all the top seven |
| 20 | And it 's only sort of , as you say , when you get older and you |
| 21 | If it 's jewellery it 's harder , it will show up , erm if you 're marking things like engagements rings , then the best thing to do is actually take photographs of them with a ruler or some sort of erm comparison of the size of the item cos if you do like a a ring on a photograph it 's gon na , it 's gon na come out like a , so if you got a ruler to say , you know , it 's only sort of one and a half inches in width or whatever , then we can actually get a clear picture of , of that . |
| 22 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 23 | It rusts so quickly and so sort of firmly it forms a very thin film of aluminium oxide on the surface . |
| 24 | But er if you had to paper the parlour was always papered in the ceiling but he kitchen was always whitewashed because we had these , if I explain to you these er fireplaces that er were n't very successful burning coal you know and the smoke would rise and before you knew where you were the ceiling was black again so sort of every so often up went the whitewash brush and you 'd whitewash the the ceiling . |
| 25 | So sort of erm what was , was there erm any victimizations or anything like that , from the bosses when you went back to work ? |
| 26 | So sort of general appreciation to Vanbrugh for having their act together . |
| 27 | So sort of she 's yeah , she 's sort of sensible and she 's tactful as well , she 's being tactful by |
| 28 | So sort of yeah , how to deal with people , inter-personal ? |
| 29 | So sort of late fourteenth century . |
| 30 | Oh I see so sort of on on the funeral day they they would n't even be in the house . |