The phrase "a sort of transparent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that has a quality of transparency or clarity, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The painting had a sort of transparent quality that allowed the light to shine through beautifully."
Alternatives: "somewhat clear" or "kind of see-through".
"I saw what I definitely believe to be a ghost: a sort of white, transparent woman walking up the top of the stairs by the north room; made my hair stand on end," he said.
I watched it all from a sort of BBC transparent bubble - a TV studio which had been hoisted on a crane high onto the roof of the Methodist Central Hall, giving us unprecedented views of the great West Door of the Coronation Abbey and the London landscape.
In a nutshell, the game lays a sort of semi-transparent Poké-world over your actual, geographical location, which you can explore by physically walking around while staring zombie-like at your screen.
The data comes from real-time media buying startup TubeMogul, which launched its ad platform in the spring of 2011 and prides itself on being all sorts of transparent.
Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.
A State Department official said today that the issue was "how you get the international financial institutions involved in safeguarding and spending the money for the oil sales, what sort of transparent and honest mechanism do you use".
More recently, those large companies have expanded their reach, in part through the sort of transparent transactions Mr. Khodorkovsky says he favors, and in part by staging hostile takeovers.
The difference with this and the Swedish example is that it's set in statute, you've got people like the OBR and the first step to having some sort of transparent, independent adjudication about whether targets are being hit... Parliament has got an extremely strong role in Sweden, far stronger than I have as an elected representative in the United Kingdom.
