Example sentences of "[am/are] things that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do .
2 They 're things that you do , they 're things that I do .
3 He discovers that there really are things that nobody has ever done before .
4 Vous [ +def. ] me demandez de vous raconter une partie de ma vie là , mais il y a des choses qu' on [ -def. ] peut pas expliquer pourtant — ‘ You ( the interviewer ) ask me to tell you part of my life , but there are things that one just ca n't explain ’
5 He spent a month there , and his photographs show that the production of tyres , which are things that we take for granted , depend on individuals , their skills , and a surprising amount of physical effort .
6 I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them .
7 These are things that we can measure ; we can make measurements of the welfare of an animal ; the term ‘ welfare ’ refers to its state , and its state in particular in respect of its attempts to cope with its environment .
8 doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists
9 Of course there are things that we would have liked to have seen such as multi-chapter documents and greater typeface and leading control but then there would n't have been anything to put in Version 4.0 , would there !
10 On the other hand I would have ticked s erm location of services er and public and utility because th these are things that we need to know at the design stage .
11 But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert .
12 it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least
13 Th these are things that we need to look at
14 I mean , you know there are things that we need to address in-house , to make sure that we give you er , an efficient service .
15 I , I 'm sorry to keep saying ‘ Yes ’ to everything that you 're , you 're suggesting , but yes , we are thinking about communication skills , particularly the encouraging and helping children to learn to write properly , I do n't mean calligraphy , I mean actually write and express themselves on paper , oral communication , and things of this kind are things that we do want to pay attention to .
16 ‘ Alyssia , ’ he began , ‘ there are things that you do n't understand .
17 They are things that you do which actually improve your department both in the short and in the long-term .
18 However , there are things that you can do to help yourself , to help others around you , to actually get some sense of mastery over these , you know , what can be very overwhelming fears .
19 And they 're all genuinely things apology or or whatever reason , there are things that I genuinely do n't know .
20 There are things that I have thought to myself about these .
21 ‘ The more I live the more I realise there are things that I 'll never do .
22 So it 's not his his fault but a lot of the training that we have to deliver is to do with procedures that he had n't dealt with whereas a lot of the procedures are things that I 'm familiar with there 's only some the job centre stuff
23 Yes , I mean several points that you 've raised , and these are things that I 've picked up from the newspapers and I 'll make the point , I 'm no expert but I as I understand it , the allied erm forces have erm substantially greater number of aircraft in the area than the Iraqi airforce had , so that 's one point .
24 I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority .
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