Example sentences of "things [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst it is intuitively obvious that the utility of most things declines over time , it is more difficult to identify the extent of that decline over a given period . |
| 2 | The great drama of the beginning of all things starts with God . |
| 3 | Classically one or other of these things happens to all the marbles that start out at the same speed ; either they all get over or they all fall back . |
| 4 | Er the same things happens with nouns and verbs and other things and in Ja Japanese again I think you find that the same words are pronounced differently . |
| 5 | Yet all but a fraction of the carbon in living things originates as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ; as we will discuss below , it is turned into organic molecules by plants by the process of photosynthesis . |
| 6 | The memory of more recent things interferes with the recall of things memorized longer ago . |
| 7 | It is sufficient to stress that during the first hours and days of life the child 's whole interaction with other things consists of reflex adaptation to the circumstances of the moment in so far as these affect biological need — the need , at this stage , of continued existence only . |
| 8 | If the continuity of real things consists in their actual perception by God , in what does their publicity ( to us , and also to God ) consist ? |
| 9 | I think everyone says the three-day week produced some remarkable results and I think that side of things continues to be run very well indeed . |
| 10 | You know , you had the sub-title and things indents below that , then a total . |
| 11 | Just as every normal human child first learns to crawl , then to stand and then to walk and the motivation and capacity to do these things comes from within the child , and is not artificially imposed from outside — so , the moral development theorists hold , there is a necessary sequence of stages of emerging moral judgement . |