Example sentences of "[art] thing [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 5 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 6 | The thing that about Bill is , he does have an amazing amount of labour saving gear , like electric hedge shears trimmers , and erm |
| 7 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 8 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 9 | the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this |
| 10 | In Porter , an Australian ex-patriate who knows more about European culture than almost anyone , the old creative-writing nag about ‘ No ideas but in things ’ becomes ‘ No things but in ideas ’ — in The Chair of Babel ( Oxford , £6.99 ) it seems to work just as well . |
| 11 | For Marx , a commodity is : an object outside us , a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another . |