Example sentences of "be thing [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw you write down crafty so you picked up his little circle , it could be used for referrals , there 's the R A R obviously is another one so they 're things that can be er picked up . |
| 2 | They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do . |
| 3 | They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do . |
| 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 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 6 | Some are things that have to be known if anything at all is to be known . |
| 7 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 8 | Wealth can make life easier , but the things that really make us happy , like friendship , love and the feeling that we are doing something worthwhile , are things that money can not buy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Final goods are things that are consumed directly and not used to produce something else ; if all goods were included in the estimate of GNP , then the cost of flour would be double-counted when the final cost of bread was included . |
| 11 | He knows that you are an extremely useful human being and there are things that need doing in the world that you are just the person to do . |
| 12 | ‘ There are things that are n't quite right with Welsh rugby ’ , Ryan had said — a euphemism if ever there was one , and it has taken all these years even to begin to rectify them . |
| 13 | These are things that every woman can do . |
| 14 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ There are things that happen in life over which you have no control . |
| 16 | He discovers that there really are things that nobody has ever done before . |
| 17 | In fact , as we have seen , it boils down to a moral evaluation of differentiation ( rather than a ‘ scientific ’ finding ) : the differences that distinguish criminals are things that are deemed to have ‘ gone wrong ’ with their biology , psyche or values . |
| 18 | Because , by our definition , crimes are things that most people , on some occasions , will want to do , their constraint is a constraint of our autonomy . |
| 19 | Secondly , it serves as proof that housework is work : the spelling out of these rules to be followed places housework in the same category as other work — there are things that simply have to be done . |
| 20 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |
| 21 | And they 're all genuinely things apology or or whatever reason , there are things that I genuinely do n't know . |
| 22 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | the way I see it , anyway , you know , if there are things that are meant to be left on . |
| 25 | ’ If onlys are things that eagles prefer to talk about than do . |
| 26 | Vous [ +def. ] me demandez de vous raconter une partie de ma vie là , mais il y a des choses qu' on [ -def. ] peut pas expliquer pourtant — ‘ You ( the interviewer ) ask me to tell you part of my life , but there are things that one just ca n't explain ’ |
| 27 | ‘ There are things that pills do n't do so well as a rest and treatment . |
| 28 | There are things that do n't add up . ’ |
| 29 | These are things that every hospital needs , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 30 | Of course there are things that we would have liked to have seen such as multi-chapter documents and greater typeface and leading control but then there would n't have been anything to put in Version 4.0 , would there ! |