Example sentences of "[adj] things that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three chief contenders for the leadership of the Socialist Party , when the ailing Andreas Papandreou hands it over , all tell you sensible things that would have got them drummed out of the party ten years ago . |
| 2 | When people are feeling wound up , there are different things that can unleash the barbed remark : another small demand for their attention , a lost key , not being taken seriously enough by the person to whom they are cataloguing the disasters of the day , or TOO MUCH NOISE . |
| 3 | However , it has occurred to us that to mention some of the unglamorous little things that can happen to you if you do n't might be highly effective in getting you to eat up your dietary fibre . |
| 4 | Erm and this is the reason why I brought this tape recorder , and I was saying to Bernard a moment ago , one of the most embarrassing things that can happen erm when talking to a group like this is when you pressed a button er whether it 's a , a tape recorder a video machine or whatever , you pressed a button full of confidence in all the latest technology and there 's an embarrassing silence . |
| 5 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |
| 6 | He had also walked the whole way in a pair of ex-NATO boots , high-laced stiff things that could reduce an SAS regular into a hobbling wreck in five minutes . |
| 7 | Also many other small things that may have life and thought — butterflies , snails in curled shell , spiders , maggots . |
| 8 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 9 | Yet still they work in improving the mood from where it is now and still there may be no perception that the depressed mood and damaging consequences of use could possibly be the responsibility of the very substances and processes that seem to be the only things that can make life better . |
| 10 | The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party — for , the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase , the national statutory minimum wage , and changes in the law to encourage strikes . |
| 11 | It is very important to make the point that we are not interested in all aspects of a speaker 's pitch ; the only things that should interest us are those which carry some linguistic information . |
| 12 | And other things that would seem basic , like modes of transport , communication centres , systems of commerce or cultural interaction . |
| 13 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 14 | Are there other things that could develop ? |
| 15 | Are there other things that could develop ? |
| 16 | Teacher : Tell me some other things that will help me play him . |
| 17 | I mean , th there are other things that can give you a hit . |
| 18 | Okay , there was a survey carried out by British Telecom , and they asked some of their customers what were the most frustrating things that can happen to you on the telephone , and this was the answer , and some of the things that you 've come up with are here . |
| 19 | One of the main things that must have happened in the early evolution of living organisms was an increase in the numbers of genes participating in such cooperatives . |