Example sentences of "things [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and obviously what you use these things for is to schedule your activities . |
| 2 | ‘ There are good things about being here , like having somebody to look after us and there are no restrictions . ’ |
| 3 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 4 | ‘ One of the most beautiful things about being in this business is that you get to meet your musical heroes . |
| 5 | ( What would you say are the best things about being a housewife ? ) |
| 6 | ( What would you say are the worst things about being a housewife ? ) |
| 7 | ( What would you say are the worst things about being a housewife ? ) |
| 8 | So that 's going to be one of the best things about being here — going to lots of concerts that I 'd never be able to see back home . |
| 9 | ‘ The best things about being free and easy is I 'm always available , ’ he says . |
| 10 | There are lots of things about being a Guide which are similar to being a Brownie — but there are also lots of new and exciting things for you to look forward to . |
| 11 | ‘ It had all the best things about being at school , like the chumminess , but there were no standards to keep to . |
| 12 | In the central and southern parts where there are Moslems , a pig 's life is easy — because one of the nice things about being an ‘ unclean ’ animal is that , not only can you not be eaten , you are not supposed to be killed , even for raiding crops . |
| 13 | One of the most rewarding things about being a lawyer in local government [ and a striking contract with private practice ] is that you rarely get asked the same question twice and usually the problems require imaginative legal thinking . |
| 14 | Accused among other things of being a gangster , a drug trafficker and an unapologetic admirer of Adolf Hitler , he had fled abroad to Panama in 1986 to avoid charges of embezzling public funds . |
| 15 | Erm , Fr if , if you look into these dreams , what very often happens is , or what people report , is that whilst they 're experiencing the , the traumatic situation , whatever it may be , being in a prison camp or something , their dreams are often fairly straightforward , they 're to do with simple wishful things like being rescued , escaping , getting . |
| 16 | These skills are important for everyone — boys and girls — and include things like being able to use equipment safely with good results , being able to weigh and measure accurately , being able to plan , design and carry out practical tasks . |
| 17 | Getting taken to the doctors and getting needles stuck in you erm things like um being fed cod liver oil , things like being hit for doing things which I thought were quite legitimate like pruning my mother 's geraniums and stuff like that . |
| 18 | Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway . |
| 19 | There are two other things to be tackled before the Japanese can operate at full tilt . |
| 20 | But there are worse things to be avoided than that |
| 21 | The biblical tradition , while taking sin and the Fall seriously , does not consider the universe and the world as things to be exploited , but rather to be treated with respect . |
| 22 | And in a way one did n't want things to be over , for the uncertain future was more unsettling than the unexplained past . |
| 23 | There were always things to be done , and Grandma joined in with the rest of us in her quiet , dreamy , unobtrusive way . |
| 24 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 25 | It was two more years before ration books could finally be burned or torn up by a thankful population — meat , bacon and butter were the last things to be freed . |
| 26 | The Council 's thirteenth-century oath , ‘ You will in all things to be moved , treated and debated in Council , faithfully declare your Mind and Opinion , according to your Heart and Conscience ; and will keep secret all Matters committed and revealed unto you , ’ lies at the heart of the British culture of official secrecy , and the enigma of monarchy remains the secret from which all other secrets flow . |
| 27 | When times are good , people spend relatively more on gambling ; when they are bad , gambling expenditure is one of the first things to be cut back . |
| 28 | ‘ I want things to be done well , done on time . |
| 29 | It is not true to say that anything is justified in a good cause : vulgarity , exhibitionism and ugliness are things to be avoided . |
| 30 | In Torrington and Weightman 's ( 1989 ) terms the work of managers may be defined as ‘ agendas , lists of things to be done ’ which are achieved through networks — ‘ cooperative relationships with people who can help to get things done ’ ( p. 112 ) . |