Example sentences of "the things [that] [verb] " 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 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 3 | One of the things that besets people in television is that they 're obsessed by it . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's one of the things that keeps my faith in pop music , no matter what nonsense gets put out in its name . |
| 5 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 6 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 7 | One of the things that came across was that the average sixteen year old leaving school this year in the U K will spend a million pounds in their lifetime . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure you could take a tabloid in this direction I 'm about to propose that would also appeal to some popular customers , but it 's like , last night everyone was reminiscing about Type ninety and the high points and one of the things that came out in conversation was that there was enormous amount of sex going on which I suppose there is at all conferences , you know , but this one seemed to be , you know , the randiest conference in recent memory . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | More dangerous than the drug itself are the things that come with it . |
| 11 | Some of the things that come from China er |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Maybe I 'm just saying I wish we had n't done the things that went wrong — old men think like that kit themselves along . |
| 14 | I tell you , a few years ago when I was lying in my hospital bed , one of the things that went through my mind was whether I would be able to drive again . |
| 15 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 16 | One of the things that does strike me about er particularly heterosexual men and their attitudes to homosexual and y'know homo erotic activities , there 's y'know a lot of different aspects where y'know I do n't know rugby players all get in the shower together and smack each-other on the backside in the name of horse play and y'know it 's not considered threatening or erm or outrageous and yet sometimes these are the very people who are the most homophobic . |
| 17 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 18 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 21 | The things that act as signals are their intuitively created trip wires . |
| 22 | But the things that seized my whole attention were the yellow blobs of pus in the corners of the eyes , the much purulent discharge from the nostrils and the photophobia which made the dog blink painfully at the light from the surgery window . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
| 26 | It was one of the things that brought it about but they they could bury her there , but only the Anglican |
| 27 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 28 | They rattled as she stalked , sometimes alarming her prey , and so she scattered them into the sand , to be ingested by the things that lived below the dunes . |
| 29 | Everything seemed to have happened by accident , even the things that lasted . |
| 30 | But these were the things that made life worth living . |