Example sentences of "[noun] of thing [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only are our brains equipped by nature to assess risks of things in a short time ; they are also equipped to assess risks of things happening to us personally , or to a narrow circle of people that we know . |
| 2 | Climbed over the railings when the place was shut and did all sorts of things to the statues and the balconies . |
| 3 | Wildlife experts working on Rhum were very keen indeed to introduce all sorts of things to the island , including sea eagles from Norway . |
| 4 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 5 | He continues : ‘ I started off putting all sorts of things into the first rough attempts , birds in one , Greek columns in another , Victorian oil lamps ; I even tried buildings and finally helicopters and an aeroplane , but gradually came to see that the designs were hopelessly confused . ’ |
| 6 | But you have to admit , it 's for the dog 's own protection to wear muzzle , as they can pick up all sorts of things in the street which can poison them . |
| 7 | However , I use all sorts of things in the early stages of a painting . |
| 8 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 9 | The purser gave them part of the ship where they could do " all sorts of things in the morning — singing , drawing , competitions " . |
| 10 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
| 11 | You 're able to do all sorts of things in the sky . |
| 12 | Mam got 'em from the nuns — you could get all sorts of things from the convent in them days . |
| 13 | ‘ I have never had to run so fast in a job in my life , and the incredible speed of things at the moment is all thanks to the recession , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Have you heard any of these words being used for the side of things by the , the tinkers ? |
| 15 | Praying that the links would n't catch on my clothes … in my knitted sweater … should have stripped … head under , metal lying on my face , push the links up with hands , full strength , take care , do n't rush , do n't snag clothes , get free of the jumble of things on the mud around me , hold onto the wire outside , do n't let go , the current in the river was appreciable , tugging , keep straight , hang on , shoulders through , raise the links , back through , bottom through , legs … links … short of breath … lungs hurting … careful , careful … unknown things round my ankles , hampering … had to breathe soon … feet catching … feet … through . |
| 16 | In the direction of things for the escape of which an occupier of land is subjected to strict liability . |
| 17 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 18 | Well er they did them They made them f f fancy kind of things on the top like a They would maybe crisscrosses and things like that and m make a rounded thing like a Just like what some folk has a tassel on their bonnets , well we made that on the top of the stack . |
| 19 | And that kind of thing on a perhaps a little larger scale , could work here I think . |
| 20 | You did n't mention that kind of thing to a detective investigating the death of a fellow club-member 's wife . |
| 21 | The beauty of these is ( a ) they require very little labour from the person indulging in them : you leave that kind of thing to the toiling masseuse or sinewy aromatherapist ( b ) they 're prettily packaged and attractive to use ( c ) they often involve other people who can supply your spiritual needs by becoming a confessor to you while you 're on the slab/under the thumb/ getting oiled . |
| 22 | There was not much sale for that kind of thing at the time of Hilbert 's marriage . |
| 23 | I 've seen the same kind of thing in the Sorcery Chambers at Tara . |
| 24 | You know he does n't like that kind of thing before a performance . ’ |
| 25 | These are pairs of things in a fundamental way like causal circumstances and effects . |
| 26 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 27 | The emphasis here is thus transferred from a straightforward assertion of the ( ontological ) existence of a certain type of things to an assertion to the effect that a given predicate can generate a true proposition . |
| 28 | Th this type of thing until the , after the three months we had to pass an exam . |
| 29 | We were most often directed to library skills and study skills lessons in which children were being taught rather unimaginatively a range of things from the Dewey Decimal Classification to the use of the full stop ! |
| 30 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |