Example sentences of "the things that [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is more than you ever were with me — until , of course , that last day at the office when you took the lid off and let it all boil over — all the things that had been bugging you . ’ |
| 2 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 3 | Open opposition is strongly implied by his offer in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been said against him . |
| 4 | He also offered in 1014 to forgive all the things that had been done against him , providing that the English returned to their allegiance without treachery . |
| 5 | The things that count are the jargon , the backstabbing , the phoniness , the pervasive insecurity . |
| 6 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 7 | Yes , it is true that much has been gained , but we need to understand from the perspective of pre-modern rural England some of the things that have been lost . |
| 8 | Many people have been outraged by some of the things that have been said and done by the rugby players . ’ |
| 9 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 10 | of the things that have been associated with feminism . |
| 11 | Which has a sort of I 'll compare it them with er some of the things that have been |
| 12 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 13 | In actual practice you could find an analysis that very often the things that have been repressed have not been repressed in the sense that they 've been totally submerged from your consciousness and totally forgotten without any trace , but what often happens is they 've become isolated or , or divorced from their context in your memory . |
| 14 | I must say that I am happy to make that statement and in view of some of the things that have been , that have appeared in the media recently here 's a statement that needs to be made as for your your your ques , what the , the Chief Constable I welcome the statement and the actions of the Chief Constable on this very concerning issue . |
| 15 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 16 | So what I think , that 's another thing about this , I have erm , there 's something about the plainness of design that I like if it 's erm the things that have been done that are erm like Adobe typefaces or Bertol typefaces , that are really beautifully , you know , sandpapered and finished to me are boring and when you get into , if you take a look at the schedule that A T F produce typefaces in it 's not unlike it , I mean the modern equivalent is the Font Bureau do 'em and try to sell 'em . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the things that has been most useful has been our non-pupil days . |
| 18 | One of the things that has been hardest for me to deal with in coaching is runners who want to train for both the marathon and the mile at the same time . |
| 19 | ‘ One of the things that has been said is that it 's actually very difficult to get a purchaser for your shares on the USM even though in theory it 's an open market . |
| 20 | The things that matter are in this book . |
| 21 | THE things that matter are conviction , acceptance of your own individuality , single-mindedness and inner belief . |
| 22 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |