Example sentences of "thing [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prosignia range is only going at 60MHz at the moment , while the SystemPro/XL 5/66 can take two of the things once they arrive . |
| 2 | Until the launch of the so-called ‘ minor tranquillisers ’ in the early Sixties , anxiety was seen as an inevitable everyday experience , and , moreover , as a valuable psychological spur compelling us to take stock of things if they went wrong . |
| 3 | I will argue , first , that we are inveterate formers of hypotheses about what we are seeing ; second , that computers can only be programmed to see things if they are provided with suitable models ; and third , that our habit of guessing what we are seeing is astonishingly successful . |
| 4 | Most people enjoy doing things if they can , it helps keep our minds active and our bodies healthy . |
| 5 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 6 | And er Liverpool people were very good , very kind , they always had a meal for me things if they could . |
| 7 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 8 | Yet , in practice , students in Western countries only protest about these things if they can detect them in their own , or allied , cultures . |
| 9 | But house er erm what is that that 's the footpath people is n't it , they always come and repair things if they 're told , at least they sh , but obviously they have to work in collaboration with the farmers , er concerned . |
| 10 | You change things if they 're not going well . |
| 11 | Mr MacConachie insists : ‘ I only do these things if they are after hours . |
| 12 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
| 13 | So , are you saying that Johnson , despite the fact that he was dealing with human types , human beings , was actually more realistic in terms of how the world as a whole works in that , bad people do get away with things if they 're good enough ? |
| 14 | Erm unless it 's actually a meeting that you 're recording use the other things cos they 're just they 've got bigger spaces for writing down what people 's first words were and stuff like that , |
| 15 | No , erm plants people tend to grow peas and beans and things cos they form little nodules round their roots , and they 're putting nitrogen They store nitrogen in that and they sort of When they 've finished they put nitrogen back into the soil . |
| 16 | Not them other little things cos they know you 've got them at the school . |
| 17 | This coolness arises in part from fear of the opponents , who have the laws on their side , and partly from the incredulity of men , who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them . |
| 18 | Oh well they , they , they do th , men do those things until they 're |
| 19 | They do great things because they are great , if the great things come along . |
| 20 | However it is linked to these things because they and it are part of a complex whole , and this rules out the simple correlations between two elements which Engels sought to establish in his ‘ historical ’ discussion . |
| 21 | I 'm sure that 's true , but many of the letters I receive indicate that women are doing things because they , generally , have to live with leaking taps , bubbling pipes , cold radiators and all the other annoyances . |
| 22 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 23 | As she says : ‘ I want to bring them up with security , not to anticipate things because they will be disappointed . |
| 24 | As people act on things because they want them — the child wants a teddy bear , or wants something to eat — they begin to gain a sense of themselves as distinct from those objects . |
| 25 | I think about these things because they were domestic economies that we practised in the 1950s . |
| 26 | I 've left out and altered some things because they were n't right for a court report . |
| 27 | We 're frightened of what will happen and sometimes we have need to be frightened , you know , they are going to do very different things because they disagree violently with us . |
| 28 | Now they and their mothers could share more things because they had been through the same experiences — something that happens with older mothers and their parents as well . |
| 29 | Right , and we 've got part of this linked in with the stuff you might have done on Sapir-Wharf Hypothesis in the sense that er people talk about different things because they might be relevant to their actual lives . |
| 30 | And it should have a view on , on issues like education and transport , and those kind of things because they 're all critical to the long-term future of economic viability within Shropshire . |