Example sentences of "[adj] be thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known . |
| 2 | This is the this is thing we should be |
| 3 | Bearing in mind that active are things that take your time forward , in the long-term , reactive are things like scale checks , you know you 're daily , fairly monotonous tasks like that . |
| 4 | The interpretation of imagery , the circumstances of production , the place of the work in the artist 's career , the historical context , the precise information about the work 's appearance and condition , these are things that can be fully discussed in a monograph . |
| 5 | These are things Europe can not do effectively on its own . |
| 6 | These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment . |
| 7 | These are things that every woman can do . |
| 8 | She sees things happen with her own eyes , and these are things she knows happen . |
| 9 | Worknet is the product of a growing awareness that within this community these are things which can be achieved by a well organised , well targeted voluntary organisation which seeks to assist in the creation of employment . |
| 10 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |
| 11 | On the one hand I 'm gon na say you 've got the enabling factors , these are things which enable you to actually participate in taking a holiday overseas . |
| 12 | And so while these things here enable us to leave home , if you like , these things are buzzing round in our head and in marketing these are things we have to look at in order to , we have to be able to make product and then try and assess how will the tourist or potential tourist respond to this . |
| 13 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |
| 14 | What archaeology can not do is tell us the names of the people and what great deeds they did , how they influenced each other , and what they thought and believed in — these are things that only historical evidence can tell us . |
| 15 | These are things which one earns , rather like spurs , and are used for the purpose of encouraging and sustaining the motivation of pupils . |
| 16 | But she must not have a wooden leg or a cast in her eye , since these are things most of us hope to escape . |
| 17 | These are things you ca n't afford to lose , not at this time of your life . |
| 18 | All these are things which can be changed . |
| 19 | These are things that every hospital needs , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 20 | These are things to check when you have problems getting your machine to work . |
| 21 | These are things like faulty shoes , faulty jeans , er faulty furniture , faulty cameras , faulty video machines , erm holidays which have gone disastrously wrong , complaints about double glazing , complaints about builders , plumbers , electricians , hairdressers . |
| 22 | These are things they do n't do at school today do they ? |
| 23 | These are these are things which were all said . |
| 24 | and er these are things you never forget you know . |
| 25 | On the other hand I would have ticked s erm location of services er and public and utility because th these are things that we need to know at the design stage . |
| 26 | These are things that when you 're confirmed you will have the ability to reach into . |
| 27 | These are things that will happen . |
| 28 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 29 | These are things the Elton project is also working towards . |
| 30 | These are things that will , will have for years . |