Example sentences of "things that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 2 | None of us can remember everyone we 've met , everything we 've done , and yet most can store away in their memory the things that we want to remember . |
| 3 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 4 | He was also expanding his social thought in general considerations on how ‘ the word ‘ civilisation ’ comes to mean more and more : because it means all the things that we have gained , and want to keep and also all the good things that we have lost , and want to regain' . |
| 5 | He was also expanding his social thought in general considerations on how ‘ the word ‘ civilisation ’ comes to mean more and more : because it means all the things that we have gained , and want to keep and also all the good things that we have lost , and want to regain' . |
| 6 | But consider how the following additional constraints would make your task so much more difficult ( and relate these constraints to the problems of being unable to study the SCN directly , of being unsure of exactly how it then sends its information to produce the rhythms in , say , temperature or urine flow — things that we can measure — and even of not being certain that the SCN is the only area in the brain that is part of the body clock ) . |
| 7 | He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort . |
| 8 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 9 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 10 | These are the things that we have both missed out on over the last few years , both of us working at all times . ’ |
| 11 | Disregard things that we do better . |
| 12 | It 's one of those things that we think lies dormant , and can flare up if the patient has been under strain or run down . |
| 13 | These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment . |
| 14 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 15 | Things that we perceive to be solid and separate are in reality just various forms of energy . |
| 16 | ‘ There are a lot of things that you might expect people to do as part of a normal lifestyle and those are the things that we should invest our time in doing first , I think , before we organise any activity on their behalf . |
| 17 | First , we can make a list of the things that we are holding against others , things that are bothering us , causing pain , things that make life miserable . |
| 18 | Collections can be made of things that we use ‘ in the garden ’ or ‘ in the kitchen ’ , for instance . |
| 19 | The items can be gathered by children themselves , for example , shiny things ; things of a particular colour ; things of a particular texture ( rough , smooth , prickly ) ; particular shapes ( rounded , with holes , pointed , with straight sides , spirals , etc. ) ; things we use in the kitchen or bathroom ; things that we use to draw with or cook with . |
| 20 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
| 21 | We did some of the old songs and Carl wrote a few things that we did new . |
| 22 | And maybe in a few years people will look back and see the things that we tried to do , and hopefully respect them . ’ |
| 23 | It is the evil things that we shall be fighting against — brute force , bad faith , injustice , oppression and persecution — and against them I am certain that the right will prevail . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It 's simple , ’ he says , ‘ they could n't get a legal worker to do the things that we would . |
| 25 | It is precisely because our modern economic system champions these things that we find so little community spirit alive in the advanced industrial societies . ) |
| 26 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 27 | It is precisely because our Lord suffered these things that we recognise him as not only God but human , like us . |
| 28 | ‘ Again , the things that we see to be hard and dense must needs consist of particles more mutually hooked and must be deeply held compact by branch-like elements . |
| 29 | We managed that time , but sometimes they 've wanted things that we just ca n't get hold of . |
| 30 | The drives we put on against New Zealand were things that we had worked on and it was very satisfying to see them coming off , not just for the forwards but for the backs as well . |