Example sentences of "things [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've written back that we might get money from but can we use it for I E buying chairs and other things or for the general welfare . |
| 2 | Voluntary work was no longer seen as either a stepping stone to bigger and better things or as a part of a women ‘ s mission , but rather as the exclusive province of married women . |
| 3 | But at the same time the Party could argue that it was attempting to equalize things or at least limit inequalities in the sense that , that , that the tax rates were . |
| 4 | Where social anthropologists write about " kinship " , other kinds of scholar might discuss " property " ( the relationship between individuals and things or between individuals and land ) , or " politics " ( the power-loaded relationship between individuals and other individuals ) . |
| 5 | You put it into casseroles and things or into the fruit |
| 6 | Collections may be made following a child 's interest in say ‘ shiny ’ things or from the teacher 's suggestion , ‘ Let's collect things that are made of wood ’ or ‘ things with lines on ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 8 | Because I think one of the most worrying things that for the soldiers at the front was will their family be looked after and will their land sort of be alright when they get back |
| 9 | Now er the things that of course was er was only different skill using colours and patterns but y y you understand that the Fair Isles were developed on pins , and you notice the patterns were always small and I think you know the practical reasons for that . |
| 10 | When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role . |
| 11 | I thought this was quite a plus actually , because we were able to get away with murder during the beginning , in some ways doing things that on paper looked very expensive but in reality balanced out over the year we were scheduled . ’ |
| 12 | To get the ideal session , that 's what we need , we need a we need an exercise , we need participation and Martin was saying that earlier , that essential anyway cos people learn best by doing well we need activity and we need to make it practical to satisfy the pragmatist to real-life issues , problems , things that on the job . |
| 13 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 14 | Certainly for cause and effect we do need two things , things that in the most fundamental sense are two in number . |
| 15 | Because then the P P G seven then goes on to make the implicit point about other things that in the countryside such as the small villages and towns and other development opportunities , do occur which provide the rural diversification and employment development that is that is required by the P P G. |
| 16 | And really we ought to be concentrating far more upon the other other changes which are proposed other than the Trusts and the things that in fact are fo far worse in my my own opinion . |
| 17 | It is about the most fundamental human freedoms , of speech and thought and belief : these are the things that in the end matter most , as Salman Rushdie himself knows , and stresses . |
| 18 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
| 19 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 20 | It may be easier to be fearful of all sorts of things than to be honest and say to yourself : ‘ The way I feel is entirely my own problem . |
| 21 | And in the Lorenz equations , it is easier to make connections between apparently unrelated things than in less well known , less well studied and less well understood systems . |
| 22 | Easy Rider was the motivation for a lot of things and for those not familiar with the story , it is one of free love and excessive drugs and of American society as perceived by Hopper in 1968 , with some moralistic warnings about drug use and undertones about the consequences of such a lifestyle — but only if you were actually looking for them . |
| 23 | Gift-giving can say " many more things and with much greater precision . |
| 24 | The first attainment target is that ‘ Pupils should develop their knowledge and understanding of the diversity and classification of living things and of the relationships , energy flow , cycles of matter and human influences within equal systems . ’ |
| 25 | That 's it , and er so I wanted to try all these things and of course |
| 26 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 27 | We only want the managers to change a few things and to be more careful about safety . ’ |
| 28 | First of all human behaviour serves both to " do " things and to " say " things . |
| 29 | Those are the little things and to a mother they must mean so much . |
| 30 | As Jeremiah put it : ‘ The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure . |