Example sentences of "be thing which " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are things which God has not given us to know , and we must learn to accept this patiently . |
| 2 | Given that ‘ ideas ’ are things which , like sensations and feelings , are essentially mind-dependent , the third premiss is something with which the philosophically sophisticated would agree ; it is , too , something with which the vulgar , if persuaded to consider the matter , could easily be brought to agree . |
| 3 | There are things which can not be done even with a 4shillings ; 5d education rate when that only produces £22,000 , and when , even with the Government grant , there is only £75,000 to spend . |
| 4 | The subjects are things which have caught a national mood exactly , like ITMA , The Goons and , last Friday , Look Back in Anger . |
| 5 | Inadequate pre-school provision in the neighbourhood , poor play facilities for children in the evenings and holidays , the poor state of fencing on local stretches of railway or canal are things which , although vital to parents and children , are issues which are beyond the control of the school . |
| 6 | On the other side there are things which are now in a form which is entirely the result of the Fall . |
| 7 | There are things which let it down . |
| 8 | Genetic make-up , early childhood socialisation , class divisions and inequalities of opportunity are things which we either do not know how to change , or would involve a degree of social and economic transformation which is very unlikely to be embarked on in the name of reducing crime . |
| 9 | First , there are things which might or would have happened as consequences of some other action which he might have done instead . |
| 10 | Secondly there are things which would have occurred , if he had not acted thus , but not as consequences of some alternative action of his . |
| 11 | Worknet is the product of a growing awareness that within this community these are things which can be achieved by a well organised , well targeted voluntary organisation which seeks to assist in the creation of employment . |
| 12 | These are things which we already have , and to write about them can only be a celebration of past triumphs , an exercise in quasi-historical complacency : " how the battle for democracy was won " . |
| 13 | Even in the cases where what we want are things which exist in the ordinary way , these things are not to be identified with the mentioned objects . |
| 14 | On the one hand I 'm gon na say you 've got the enabling factors , these are things which enable you to actually participate in taking a holiday overseas . |
| 15 | Predictions have value of course because these are things which affect climate and affect people 's lives , but also making a prediction is a way of trying to verify whether the understanding that we think we have about how the system works can actually be translated into equations which are put on a computer , and then when you let this go it in fact s does indeed do what the real world does . |
| 16 | These are things which one earns , rather like spurs , and are used for the purpose of encouraging and sustaining the motivation of pupils . |
| 17 | Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts . |
| 18 | All these are things which can be changed . |
| 19 | Sometimes my city portraits could be anywhere , the comments are things which someone from Chile could understand . |
| 20 | These are these are things which were all said . |
| 21 | It is important that it is not a whitewash in this school as there are things which need uncovering . |
| 22 | What it does is it means that there is a proper look each year at the finances of each individual firm er and er if there are things which are wrong , they are reported straight away and that really I think is the lesser of all of this with B C C I , er that er where things are not all they should be that they are dealt with and they are reported quickly and these orders , Madam Deputy Speaker , go a long way to helping to ensure that and for that reason I believe the house should warmly welcome them . |
| 23 | Lewis Carroll used an English Proverb here which means there are things which a minor can do in front of a superior . |
| 24 | Clearly , the category of social services is obviously too wide on which to base investigation since some of its elements may well be things which only rich societies can afford . |
| 25 | As I hope I have made clear already , the objectives have to be things which can actually be achieved by advertising — ‘ to increase sales ’ is not an advertising objective , though it is something to which advertising can and should contribute . |
| 26 | But there may be things which are forbidden by your law . ’ |
| 27 | In other words , they 're not , they 're not extras er in , in the absolute sense , they are necessary for that particular scheme , but they may be things which less erm experienced consultants might omit . |
| 28 | He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them . |
| 29 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 30 | There were things which had to be said to him and there might not be much time . |