Example sentences of "the thing that [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organisers of National Motivation Week ( NMW ) have joined forces with the Industrial Society to compile a list of the things that kill commitment . |
| 2 | Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War . |
| 3 | More dangerous than the drug itself are the things that come with it . |
| 4 | Some of the things that come from China er |
| 5 | The things they have in common , or critical attributes , are the things that help us to define a concept , which in turn helps us to identify further examples of that class of things . |
| 6 | One of the things that distinguish teaching as a profession is the extent to which people 's implicit personal philosophies are constantly and necessarily relevant to their professional impact . |
| 7 | The things that act as signals are their intuitively created trip wires . |
| 8 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 9 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 10 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 11 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 12 | Thus book is an attempt to look at some of the things that go on when people face a loss of someone or something significant in their lives . |
| 13 | ‘ You would n't believe some of the things that go on in here . |
| 14 | It 's unusual for me , an Indian man , vis-à-vis the things that go on around my wife . |
| 15 | Do you try out new things , move on and try out something else if it is not successful , build on the things that go well ? |
| 16 | Difficulty of obtaining substances , trying to find the cash to buy the stuff , y'know , all the things that go with it , social problems , domestic problems , mental health problems . |
| 17 | The most obvious questions have to do with the elements or components of the curriculum : the things that go to make it up ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 18 | Or some of the things that go with it ? |
| 19 | Some of the things that go with |
| 20 | I do n't mean helmeted sentries literally do patrol the walls by night , I do n't mean even that anything 's actually been seen , but the things that go on in people 's minds are realities , and do influence events . |
| 21 | It 's the things that go with them . |
| 22 | At its simplest , associationism is the theory that a mental content has the meaning it does because of the things that tend to follow , or precede , it into the mind . |
| 23 | Apathy is an extreme feeling that we no longer have control over our lives or the things that sweep us along . |
| 24 | Cos these are the things that cause . |
| 25 | And we 've now reached a situation in which there 's something over twenty percent of our streets is multiple occupation , erm and this is noise and other activities in relation to that are the things that cause the sort of low level of concern , and this was just the peak on top of that of major aggravation . |
| 26 | And that 's gon na have to be some of the things that suffer . |
| 27 | He needs time skills as well , instead of just doing things as soon as possible because you get to the things that become more pressing take over , |
| 28 | You would n't believe the things that turn up on our bill . |
| 29 | As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving ! |
| 30 | It simply refers to all the things the retailer does to look after the customers — the things that make them enjoy visiting that shop or store . |