Example sentences of "of the things that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more .
2 The difficulty is getting them involved again in some of the things that they 're interested in . ’
3 So I explained to him and he was very nice , er but one of the things that they 'd said that they would do , is get all the news broadcasters er to sign consent forms
4 And er they set out this basic charter of the things that they thought erm were important to fair trade .
5 And wh because one of the things that they were deliberately doing as if they were unprepared .
6 Ale ale was one of the things that they ate they they drank they put ale on their porridge .
7 Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for .
8 First , we can make a list of the things that we are holding against others , things that are bothering us , causing pain , things that make life miserable .
9 Like if an older band started saying some of the things that we do then they 'd be sexist because they 're older and more respectable .
10 ‘ One of the things that we have noted with Frame Relay is that many customers preferred a fixed rate — when you are talking about ATM , I would imagine that some would be interested in flat rate too , but more will be interested in usage based billing ’ , Ms Fitzgerald notes .
11 You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory .
12 So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago .
13 And one of the things that we learn very early in history is the Great Fire of London .
14 fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there .
15 Did we go I er I 'm now I 'm pretty sure we went home for a seven and a half hour day in twenty one , pretty sure that 's what one of the things that we did .
16 And also because the whole issue of all age worship , was one of the things that we put on the list of what we want to discuss .
17 Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want .
18 I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
19 So this , restricting the input , is one of the things that we get on , inverse functions .
20 Erm so some of the things that we can look at with wind for example of the er you know the power and the the destructive nature of wind , the cooling nature of wind , the refreshing nature of wind , the disturbing nature of wind .
21 One of the things that we shall be seeking to do in the negotiations on the political union treaty is to try to ensure that the Commission — at present under no effective control — increasingly comes under the control of the most appropriate Parliament , in this case the European Parliament .
22 But yeah , certainly that 's one of the things that we think , is that our , er it 's our memory of our own historical life events is part of what makes us who we are .
23 That man , okay , singular , who was then each one of us , plural , erm erm , I take it that , that erm one of the things that we could conclude from this entire discussion is that our notion of selfhood erm which is our modern notion of selfhood , deeply bound up with erm personal history , you know , Locke 's erm , what is Locke 's example ?
24 This seems erm , over the top , I erm , I do n't honestly think the provision of garages is absolutely essential in the light of the things that we 've been cutting up which are essential , erm , and in number two .
25 The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period .
26 So it 's in the Fire Service that we 've actually got time posted , and in fact most of the things that we wish to charge for we 're actually statutorily prohibited from doing .
27 Erm , the irony of the sort of split responsibility is that er one of the things that we have to obviously bear in mind with any future in erm extension of residents ' parking schemes is the cost , and er it 's interesting that the district council 's off-street er parking account erm for the area is , has got a reasonable surplus , and er well we as an authority 're responsible for , for off-street parking as well .
28 We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it .
29 But one of the things that we have discovered over twenty year is the only way you will get people to come into that brochure is to make absolutely certain before you go and see them is
30 But what I 'd like to do before we progress much farther , is just to , just to think , maybe about some of the things that I 've said there , some of the things that we 've already spoken about .
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