Example sentences of "thing for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's often a lot of hot air spoken about airbags — you know , the devices that inflate rapidly in an accident — but one things for sure , they certainly help save lives . |
| 2 | And , and , you know , they 've got paid youth officer 's working in Harlow , now they are , there are , they 're over they 're over stretched it 's true and , but we , I mean what were doing here is actually supplementing there service and were not meeting all , we would n't of erm meeting all the demands , but the important thing I think is that were continuing to erm , you know , were trying to do something about it , and one of the things that were trying to do as officer 's in the Local Government Unit is work with Leisure Services and get them to put more resources into doing things for young people . |
| 3 | Thus , many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons . |
| 4 | ‘ People buy things for all sorts of reasons : it 's nothing to do with us . |
| 5 | He does n't do things for stupid personal reasons . |
| 6 | One thing George has discovered is that there is no shortage of things for retired people to do . |
| 7 | One of the most difficult things for modern parents is to remind ourselves that we must maintain a life of our own . |
| 8 | We can other things however though , because we can do the same things for actual . |
| 9 | But as long as he is setting up things for other people , that 's fine by me . ’ |
| 10 | We are able to see into the heart of things for other people . |
| 11 | And yet — so ran her disjointed thoughts — had n't one always been taught that Christmas was the time when one should give up things for other people ? |
| 12 | As a doctor she would be i in the dilemma of of trying to give her daughter something which er is not allowed , and yet as a as a doctor she could prescribe other things for other people and here she is as a mother with her own child in her own house , unable to do anything very much for her . |
| 13 | If this happens , it is usually better to leave things for that year , and to take them right down after the next flowering . |
| 14 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 15 | That had been the way of things for several years . |
| 16 | It clearly had n't been carefully read afterwards , because there are two words run together there , I mean you do really need to , to read things for grammatical errors , errors in people 's names . |
| 17 | When I was a player , I 'd go into his office and we 'd talk contract for five minutes about other things for 30 minutes . ’ |
| 18 | But I do want you to write some things for next time . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do n't think I would fit into his scheme of things for next season . |
| 20 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 21 | And because I knew a lot of people , you 'd do things for different motives . |
| 22 | I made some comm-calls to contacts on planets here and there , pretending to some that I was looking for commissions , to others that I was in different parts of the galaxy transporting things for different people . |
| 23 | Analysing tenants ' own accounts of their living conditions , he again argues that ‘ home ’ and what we have earlier called ‘ ontological security ’ actually mean quite different things for different classes . |
| 24 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 25 | I think that people are getting very concerned indeed over how the French government are basically disrupting so many worthwhile things for silly reasons . |
| 26 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 27 | One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour . |
| 28 | Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store . |
| 29 | and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ? |
| 30 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |