Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Soda ash and its co-products are many things to many manufacturers . |
| 3 | Glaswegians are many things , but they are not indifferent . |
| 4 | 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 . ' |
| 5 | The symbolic resources are such things as exclusive rights to access parts of the database , operating system locks , and so on . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | One of the problems is this thing about some are being punished and have to there |
| 8 | Then of course , suggestions was another thing for the improvement in working practices and working conditions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |
| 11 | This one has got five levers and the levers are these things here that you can see in the casing . |
| 12 | The thing is if we can get that erm and We can al we could also put it on business cards is another thing . |