Example sentences of "things that we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 2 | It is typical of Sir Edmund 's somewhat elliptical approach to things that we went through this rather futile conversation before he told me anything else . |
| 3 | Things that we perceive to be solid and separate are in reality just various forms of energy . |
| 4 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 5 | The sort of things that we cover in the er er code of practice for charging to clients which are outside this . |
| 6 | Right , so we 're to ignore all these things that we hear at the conference . |
| 7 | Can I suggest as , as we , we start the document , that we have a copy of the procedure we 're discussing open , because I think most of us in debate and discussion proper if we made our own procedures , things that we hear about . |
| 8 | And also because the whole issue of all age worship , was one of the things that we put on the list of what we want to discuss . |
| 9 | And that 's extremely difficult to do something about the equity target , since National policy , the distribution of income , housing policy , all the things that we tackle on this committee and committees of the council have a very significant effect on the health of the people who live in the city , and it 's not in our control . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 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 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 14 | One of the things that we need to , to work out , and Mark 's gon na do some work on that and , and Maureen pro primarily to identify that erm we 're spending about thirty five , thirty six K a month over at the moment . |
| 15 | One of the things that we need to be clear about is that erm computers are not unlike us . |
| 16 | Conference , to have a sign in the front and rear of your car may help all new drivers to understand that as a new driver you are entering a system that we are not aware of , speed , which is associated with many other items causes the very things that we work in our day-to-day lives under health and safety to stop . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to offer a programme that 's going to create half a million or more jobs in the short run , that is highly progressive , that is very well balanced , that is faithful to the great middle class of this country and good for the things that we care about , jobs and health care , ’ he said of his economic plan . |
| 18 | ‘ Again , the things that we see to be hard and dense must needs consist of particles more mutually hooked and must be deeply held compact by branch-like elements . |
| 19 | Let's be honest , I did n't wan na see good sections , I wan na see strong sections , I wan na see vibrant sections , but I also want to see the truth in those documents when it comes back afterwards , so I 'm disappointed on this issue and er I hope something in future will be done about to report the real things that we discussed at conference as well . |
| 20 | Er one of the other things that we want of course . |
| 21 | . Let me say now , that most of things that we do in this part of the course , I do n't ask you to tell me what you 've written down , stress is a very personal thing , your reaction to it , so do n't worry , you write down anything that you want to write down , because it is for you . |
| 22 | Erm , the irony of the sort of split responsibility is that er one of the things that we have to obviously bear in mind with any future in erm extension of residents ' parking schemes is the cost , and er it 's interesting that the district council 's off-street er parking account erm for the area is , has got a reasonable surplus , and er well we as an authority 're responsible for , for off-street parking as well . |
| 23 | Now one of the things that we have in this city that I do n't think they have as many in Ipswich are students and that must be one of the biggest , they are they party revellers of the century , they have parties all the time . |
| 24 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 25 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 26 | I would n't have covered half the things that we covered in that time , yeah ? |