Example sentences of "[noun] be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until this month , I thought that all anyone needs to know besides budget are such things as preferred processor ( a 486DX ) , speed ( at least 33MHz ) , hard disk size ( as big as the bucks allow ) , monitor type ( ditto ) and a familiar brand need which would be there forever to honour a warranty . |
| 2 | Running water from taps , plug holes and drains are all things to be explored , as are ditches , puddles , fish tanks and the pets ' water containers . |
| 3 | Soda ash and its co-products are many things to many manufacturers . |
| 4 | Glaswegians are many things , but they are not indifferent . |
| 5 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |
| 6 | For so long there has been no regulation or regulatory body who can impose standards upon the canopy designer and manufacturer and , as a direct conslequence of this omission , the quality of both have varied from very high to ‘ good grief is that thing legal ! ’ , all lwithout legal recourse . |
| 7 | there in the Chronicle was this thing to say what a good response they had ! |
| 8 | But how marvellous , Robbie thought wistfully , to be in a relationship where your lover was all things to you . |
| 9 | But you 'll start feeling better quite soon ; a more balanced diet , a little more activity , and a positive attitude are all things that give you a sense of well being and vitality . |
| 10 | With his beloved Halle and its attendant choir he performs John Ireland 's These Things Shall Be and , with the orchestra alone , Bax 's Third Symphony ( CDH7 63910 ) , music that does n't deserve the neglect into which it has fallen since these 1940s performances . |
| 11 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 12 | The burning of waste is another thing which adds to the Greenhouse Effect and can create other forms of atmospheric pollution , such as toxic dioxins and acid rain . |
| 13 | ‘ Multimedia is all things to all people . |
| 14 | The symbolic resources are such things as exclusive rights to access parts of the database , operating system locks , and so on . |
| 15 | The problem with beliefs is that they can often be unrealistic and stubborn ( see Beliefs on page 21 ) but reasonable behavioural rights are such things as : |
| 16 | One of the problems is this thing about some are being punished and have to there |
| 17 | Your own presentation is another thing you need to be aware of . |
| 18 | Lord Liverpool was many things , but he was not a clear-cut individualist , and his concept of limited politics was distinct from that associated with laissez-faire liberal economics . |
| 19 | Okay so we 'll let U be this thing that 's raised to a power . |
| 20 | Yes , the back page is this thing here of that blue hand-out booklet , right , if you can just , if you can see one or somebody else 's , instead of rummaging through that 'll be fine . |
| 21 | So standing behind a barrier is another thing . |
| 22 | His readiness to acknowledge that God is all things to all men enables him to support the Dvaitin or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaitin or qualified non-Dualist positions as well as maintaining his own preference for Advaita or non-Dualism . |
| 23 | God is all things to all Nuer ; they see him with as many different faces as they divide their own society into separate kinship groups . |
| 24 | The concept of belief was another thing guaranteed to upset droids . |
| 25 | Then of course , suggestions was another thing for the improvement in working practices and working conditions . |
| 26 | The Colonel was many things , but he was no hypocrite . |
| 27 | The excitement of the Camphill Project , the expansion of the congregation to swell the numbers in both morning services on a Sunday and the continuous flow of new members into the church are all things for which we can be glad and rejoice , because God is at work . |
| 28 | Visiting the doctor , attending parentcraft classes , asking questions , reading books and leaflets from the clinic are all things you can do together . |
| 29 | Thus the interactions were all things which did not clearly put one of the protagonists in an agent position and the other in a patient position . |
| 30 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |