Example sentences of "[prep] thing [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned these sort of things are said in every office , ’ said Mr Wilson . |
| 3 | And we 've got a new source of burnable material to replace the hedge trimmings : lots of things are delivered on pallets , wooden pallets , not all of which are returnable . |
| 4 | The church ensures that this concept of being part of the social order of things is adhered to . |
| 5 | I , I put that as number four , rather than the first three , which I think are terribly vital , so I would be grateful if these sort of things were taken on board . |
| 6 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 7 | There were stacks of things being sold to the French restaurant trade which were perfect for us . |
| 8 | The reality of things was hidden from ordinary folk like him . |
| 9 | Even then the director had to make changes as the backers insisted that the story of an impoverished farmer galvanizing a group of the unemployed into helping make a success of things was combined with a more conventional sex angle . |
| 10 | He taught that the natural order of things was marked by three characteristics : |
| 11 | This sort of thing is found throughout the Northeast . |
| 12 | In case anyone thinks this sort of thing is confined to earlier times and feudal societies , it is well to consider some more recent debates in European societies like France , Germany and Italy where grammatical gender languages are spoken . |
| 13 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 14 | Good and evil are understood , just as with Moore , as non-natural characteristics whose presence in things is revealed to intuition . |
| 15 | In the grant-aided sector we used to sit around in our meetings thinking of ways we could open things out and get away from things being dominated by White middle-class people . |