Example sentences of "things that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interpretation of imagery , the circumstances of production , the place of the work in the artist 's career , the historical context , the precise information about the work 's appearance and condition , these are things that can be fully discussed in a monograph . |
| 2 | He is infinitely kind to all the things that go into his pictures . |
| 3 | There were other things that had to be reconciled , and we hear presently of ‘ a role of inherent superiority which came to me from outside , from the servants among others . |
| 4 | Kundera asks us to join together two things that are often kept apart : lyrical effusions and public poetry . |
| 5 | Galsworthy gives very precise details on the dimensions of the cell , the things that are in it and the character 's sequence of actions . |
| 6 | And I 've rejected nothing , but the things that happen when working expand the horizons and the understanding . |
| 7 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 8 | I went to drama school having done all the correct things that drama students are supposed to ignore — like going to public school ( Wellington ) and dressing in conventional clothes . |
| 9 | There are so many things that matter . |
| 10 | The Comet was listed after the damage had been done , and with the Prospect Inn it was necessary to itemise all the things that had not changed , since the superficial impression of change was predominant . |
| 11 | ‘ I derive my enjoyment of food from its colour , texture and the combination on the plate when I eat ; so these are the things that I concentrate on when cooking for customers , ’ she explains . |
| 12 | And Conroy dearest , go up to Mummy 's room and wait there till I come , and try to pretend that all the dreadful things that have happened are just part of the play . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Edith 's very good but there are some things that need watching . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My dear fellow , we spend our time here working on things that should n't have been said , but unless they are , ’ he added thoughtfully , ‘ nobody gets anywhere . |
| 16 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 17 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 18 | It 's amazing some of the things that have come back to me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Look after yourself by eating a balanced and varied diet of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , getting enough rest and cutting out the things that can harm your baby . |
| 21 | Taking regular exercise is one of the healthiest things that women can do . |
| 22 | Between April 1953 and March 1954 they produced the first five issues , meeting in Layton 's home , occasionally at Rosengarten 's , to discuss The Things That Matter — their latest poetry and material offered by others , not infrequently being led in song by Leonard on his ever-present guitar . |
| 23 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 24 | Aniela Jaff has spoken of ‘ the mysterious and lonely poetry , ’ which she finds in Chagall 's art , a ‘ ghostly aspect of things that only rare individuals may see , ’ which very much encapsulates Leonard 's work , too . |
| 25 | The important thing about form , in either the Platonic or Aristotelian senses , is that forms are the sort of things that can be thought , or apprehended intellectually . |
| 26 | On the one hand , it is natural to think of the world outside mind as consisting solely of particulars : the only things that could be general would be ideas . |
| 27 | At its simplest , associationism is the theory that a mental content has the meaning it does because of the things that tend to follow , or precede , it into the mind . |
| 28 | As BS knows everything relevant about the physical state of affairs , the things that he does not know about are not physical states of affairs . |
| 29 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 30 | I do n't mean learning facts like ‘ Lemur is the capital of Peru ’ or that ‘ St Tracy is the patron saint of the dormer window ’ ( we can learn things that are false : learning is not mere information pick-up ) , but acquiring concepts such as what is to count as a ‘ chair ’ , that weight is conserved through transformations of shape , that the earth is a heavenly body circling a larger heavenly body . |