Example sentences of "[art] thing be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell him the things are for Peter , the boy who was sorry about the coal , then he will understand . |
| 2 | I suggest , then , that the alleged non-naturalness of good and bad consists in their being properties of things which follow from what the things are like but which do not contribute to things being like what they are like . |
| 3 | With this aim in view , he makes explicit that what the sceptics deny is the possibility of knowledge of ‘ the inner nature of things … what the things are in themselves ’ ; when they say that there is no criterion of truth , ‘ they are not speaking of what things appear to be and of what is revealed by the senses … but of what things are in themselves , which is so hidden that no criterion can disclose it ’ . |
| 4 | I think one of the things is of course to try and use the placement to sort of check out for yourself erm perhaps what sort of group you want to be working with in |
| 5 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
| 6 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 7 | The thing is for us to receive . |
| 8 | So the thing is with all financial planning that you try and keep things very flexible . |
| 9 | And the thing is with my kids , if I was in the car on my own I could imagine chatting away |
| 10 | Okay , is there , I do n't mind getting them shoes , but the thing is with , not knowing what the weather 's doing |
| 11 | Well no they 're the thing is with the European Song Contest each different country has its own tendency , has its own leanings towards different types of material . |
| 12 | Yeah , but , the thing is with that it 's very different because , , it 's not your fault |
| 13 | What we wan na do is think of some buildings and describe them to ourselves and then work out what style , cos the thing is since the 1960s , styles like we want , like a progression of styles till the 1990s and see what 's changed and what 's stayed . |
| 14 | Or we look at how strongly animals avoid things , and again that tells us something about how unpleasant the thing is to the animal . |
| 15 | ‘ Exactly how good , ’ he said , very slowly , ‘ do you think the Thing is at judging how close nomes can stand to a going-up jet when it goes up ? |
| 16 | I mean the thing is at the age of sixty he has no conception of what it 's like to be your age at this period . |
| 17 | The thing is at that age they often do n't get severe punishment cos they 'll got to either a special place |
| 18 | Of course the thing is at the end of the day , you can always eat 'em ca n't you ? |
| 19 | For no matter how much it is objected that it can not be stated definitely from these considerations just what the thing is like according to its nature , but only what it is like in respect to one thing or to another , it may still be said what there is in it which makes it appear to be this in respect to one thing and that in respect to another ; and consequently it may be said both to be one thing according to its nature and to be this or that in respect to other things . |
| 20 | The intrinsic nature of a thing is the whole detailed character which it would share with anything else exactly like it , so far as that character is entirely a matter of what the thing is like , so to speak , within its own boundaries , while its intrinsic properties are the various discriminable elements of its intrinsic nature . |
| 21 | Getting into the thing is like being fitted for a tin wet-suit . |
| 22 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 23 | Well the thing is after a while when you 've done quite a few it comes it comes fairly easy , and you can do it in your head . |
| 24 | the thing is by Friday morning there 's a lot of people but er . |
| 25 | they say oh tax is too high , I mean Labour want to put it up any way , but by the by , this answered them any way , what they say is oh its too high , erm even the American tax is four per cent , who gives a dam , because the thing is in America what you 're loosing , what you gain in your tax you have to pay out through the nose for health care |
| 26 | the thing is in Scotland though , there 's five good teams and the rest are rubbish |
| 27 | well the thing is in the end for all the subsidiaries that you pass it counts on the |
| 28 | If the thing 's to be more than a game there 'll have to be some risks . |
| 29 | The thing was on the blink again . |
| 30 | A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again , a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice . |