Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact if one thing marks out a Christian as being different it should be this thing called ‘ love ’ . |
| 2 | Adam Burns might be many things , but she doubted if ‘ handyman around the house ’ was one of them . |
| 3 | There might be some things in here . |
| 4 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , there 'll be some things happening on election night . |
| 6 | The firm abandoned the idea that it could be all things to all people and decided to focus on identified areas of expertise examples are the legal profession , building societies and the construction industry — and build a reputation for quality of service by becoming pre-eminent in those fields . |
| 7 | and to each set they 'd be any thing up to ten sub set questions , so er he says do what you can in er the hour , well it 's not an hour , but it 's fifty minutes |
| 8 | There may be many things you would like to say in this report but there will only be room for important ones . |
| 9 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 10 | Drug , anti-drug legislation may be another thing . |
| 11 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 12 | Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ I am sure that if I had my time again there would be many things I would do differently ’ , but went on : ‘ Criticism is part of the price of leadership . ’ |
| 14 | There will be many things for her to think about and remember , at a time when she may be feeling quite disturbed emotionally , and you can do much to ease the strain of it all for her . |
| 15 | As you walk along the scene will change slightly and there will be more things for you to experience . |
| 16 | The first , and most natural , reaction to this is to reject the suggestion that there can be such things as non-descriptive , simple referential symbols . |
| 17 | As we saw earlier , a central godhead whose manifold characteristics can be all things to all men is more powerful than a more parochial and less versatile spirit . |
| 18 | Of course the ‘ suburb ’ can be many things . |
| 19 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |