Example sentences of "thing [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't insured and the things stolen were worth £150,000 . |
| 2 | The trend of things had been for agricultural land to go out of production because it was easier to earn a living working in Israel . |
| 3 | It had n't What kind of things had been in the past ? |
| 4 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 5 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 6 | In a way , these two things have been in conflict right the way through the history of climbing . |
| 7 | Prevention is better than cure , and the sensible thing to do is to physically shield the mike , either by angling the shot out of the wind , or by getting an assistant to shelter it bodily . |
| 8 | Barbedette concluded that the only thing to do is to ‘ maintain an intrepid virtue . ’ |
| 9 | And you 've got perfect liver function tests which is what we thought you 'd have all So the thing to do is to now get you on Terbinefeine Yeah ? |
| 10 | Well I think the thing to do is to actually give you the higher dose patches . |
| 11 | It 's because there are economies of scale , alright , now if there are gains to be had from specialisation right , and consumers want specialised products and the best thing to do is to , erm , focus production in a single location right , for lots of different variants of this product right . |
| 12 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 13 | Yes , ah well the thing to do is to er go down and hi , hire a Daily Mirror van and wait for Mrs to arrive ! |
| 14 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |
| 15 | Well I 'll I 'll erm Well if you 've got the insurance the be the best thing to do is for me to tell them when you 've actually been done . |
| 16 | Probably what the best thing to do is for for for managers to sit when Vicky comes back I 'll fill in for anyone who reports to me . |
| 17 | Kevin had exposed the connection with the previous pipe , so the easiest thing to do was to carefully break the pipe at the connector , and cut the other end about 100mm away from the hardcore . |
| 18 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 19 | The other bearers took the traditional view that the right thing to do was for Yussuf to get rid of her and find another one ; but for reasons known only to himself Yussuf was reluctant to do this . |
| 20 | The first thing to recognise is at what level you are currently performing . |
| 21 | And yet the thing had been in place for probably no more than a matter of weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ First time that thing 's been of some use ! ’ |