Example sentences of "thing [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway . |
| 2 | There are two other things to be tackled before the Japanese can operate at full tilt . |
| 3 | But there are worse things to be avoided than that |
| 4 | The biblical tradition , while taking sin and the Fall seriously , does not consider the universe and the world as things to be exploited , but rather to be treated with respect . |
| 5 | And in a way one did n't want things to be over , for the uncertain future was more unsettling than the unexplained past . |
| 6 | There were always things to be done , and Grandma joined in with the rest of us in her quiet , dreamy , unobtrusive way . |
| 7 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 8 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 9 | The Council 's thirteenth-century oath , ‘ You will in all things to be moved , treated and debated in Council , faithfully declare your Mind and Opinion , according to your Heart and Conscience ; and will keep secret all Matters committed and revealed unto you , ’ lies at the heart of the British culture of official secrecy , and the enigma of monarchy remains the secret from which all other secrets flow . |
| 10 | When times are good , people spend relatively more on gambling ; when they are bad , gambling expenditure is one of the first things to be cut back . |
| 11 | ‘ I want things to be done well , done on time . |
| 12 | It is not true to say that anything is justified in a good cause : vulgarity , exhibitionism and ugliness are things to be avoided . |
| 13 | In Torrington and Weightman 's ( 1989 ) terms the work of managers may be defined as ‘ agendas , lists of things to be done ’ which are achieved through networks — ‘ cooperative relationships with people who can help to get things done ’ ( p. 112 ) . |
| 14 | There are hundreds of things to be done for tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | Through them I first learned ( as Leslie learned in the army ) that bathrooms and books were not then things to be taken for granted — that reading was not an instinct like breathing and eating , but a skill sometimes painfully acquired . |
| 16 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 17 | It seems that a literary woman of Leapor 's class can only read by night : there are simply too many things to be done during the day . |
| 18 | Continuity of utterance now becomes an end in itself and lacunae in consciousness , gaps and verbal ‘ black holes ’ ( linguistic vortices ) , things to be avoided like the plague . |
| 19 | I realise now that this is how I wanted things to be when I was a small girl and came home from school . |
| 20 | My brother and I would imagine all manner of things to be lurking at the top , from demons ' castles to wizards and fairies . |
| 21 | Whilst there are , perhaps , many things to be celebrated about the 1960s there are also many to be deplored : I am thinking , in particular , of the racist excesses of the mid to late sixties and beyond , which ran concurrently with eulogies of love and peace . |
| 22 | There is , however , a widespread opinion that this is not the case , and that illness in old age is ‘ just one of those things to be put up with . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Contemn the world' ’ ( Saith he ) ‘ and count all that is in it vanity and toys ; this only covet all thy life long ; be not over-solicitous in anything , but with a well-composed and contented estate to enjoy thyself , and above all things to be merry . ' ’ |
| 24 | Other things to be observed would be the patient 's appearance , presence or absence of heat and sweat in different areas of the body , his behaviour and mood , what he wants in his surroundings and environment , does he want to be still or moving , if he moves why does he move , does he want fresh air or to be covered , or both , or neither , and so on ! |
| 25 | Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged . |
| 26 | One of the basic things to be negotiated is the matter of running the home , now that there are two adults spending so much time in it . |
| 27 | Running water from taps , plug holes and drains are all things to be explored , as are ditches , puddles , fish tanks and the pets ' water containers . |
| 28 | As soon as there are more than two things to be compared , they will be ordered according to a particular relationship . |
| 29 | This gives an opportunity for action to be taken at once and for things to be put right without delay . |
| 30 | Beach are this week 's archetypal , one-syllable hopeful indie band , a four-song EP is the correct thing for them to be releasing , and titles like ‘ Burn ’ and ‘ Seeing ’ are the correct things to be on it , each one laced with all the right expansive guitar and aptly sweet and cottony ( female ) vocal . |