Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [vb base] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that you never think of humans as having holes in their socks . ’ |
| 2 | Male behaviour is so normative that we ordinarily think of celibacy as meaning that men are to leave women alone , rather than seeing it as a positive step women take to make a non sexually-active community together . |
| 3 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 4 | As well as giving presents , let us make sure that we also give of our time and attention to those who care about us and our thanks to those who have given to us . |
| 5 | Erm , he has stripped away from these true selves everything that we normally think of as institute of , of a self . |
| 6 | We pretend that we never think of everything that makes us what we are . ’ |
| 7 | It relates to the very distinction between standard and other effects , and depends on what that distinction grants , that we sometimes speak of decisions and the like as effects without supposing that they issue from causal circumstances , which by definition are necessitating circumstances . |
| 8 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 9 | It 's possible that the increased understanding that we now have of miocenia gravis will help us to understand more about diseases such as multiple sclerosis which are , unhappily , much more common than miocenia gravis . |
| 10 | So what about the things that we occasionally hear of colour shifts and so on — is that relevant to what we 're talking about at the moment ? |
| 11 | So many books and articles have been published on the topic that we often speak of a ‘ Darwin industry ’ . |
| 12 | The observations indicate that they probably consist of nearly pure sulphuric acid ( H 2 SO 4 ) . |
| 13 | The deposits produced by Vulcanian eruptions are similar to those produced by Surtseyan eruptions , in that they too consist of highly-fragmented material , with a large proportion of it less than one millimetre in size . |