Example sentences of "things [conj] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 2 | One of the things that 's perhaps a little difficult to say with that tape recorder running in the middle of the room , is , that this course offers , operates a sense of code of confidentiality , and I 'm not sure how this is going to work . |
| 3 | all the things that 's like and ours , I say with ours they 're cutting back and cutting back all the time until I mean it 's under funded now , it 's under staffed already , thirty seven , thirty eight in the class , so what do they do now , they want to save seven million on education |
| 4 | ‘ One of the things that is often said about the success of British athletics at the moment is that it hides an awful lot that 's wrong . |
| 5 | Erm one of the things that is very good at is in in technical applications such as CADCAM . |
| 6 | Er , I mean that 's , that 's not just here it 's everywhere , but one of the things that is very clear is that people often do not have access to the sort of information that they need about hazards . |
| 7 | More recently , the House of Lords held that in fulfilling his/her duty in relation to section 36 the parent had to do ‘ those things that are reasonably practicable to be done and which an ordinary prudent parent would do ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ And my mother , ’ he continued crisply as though she had not spoken , ‘ did not need reminding of things that are best left forgotten . ’ |
| 9 | We may find things that are best kept locked away . " |
| 10 | Root definitions can be used to define two things that are otherwise both vague and difficult . |
| 11 | I learnt things that are neither discussed in manuals nor by hardened divers who have seen it all before . |
| 12 | These recipes are a taste of some of the things that are simply too good to forget . |
| 13 | What happened was that we began to do all kinds of things that are normally done to support a tour that you farm out , but we used to do it in-house , so we had our own publicity department , our own travel department — we booked our own flights and our own hotels , we did n't use a travel agency . |
| 14 | War has brought to the surface things that are normally hidden . |
| 15 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 16 | I welcome that assurance , but does my hon. Friend accept that there is already a tremendous amount of evidence about some of the things that are clearly wrong with maritime safety ? |
| 17 | This even extends to forbidding children to do things that are positively dangerous : playing with sharp knives , climbing tall trees , and so on . |
| 18 | With pants , as with many clothes , she has to know the difference between things that are nearly the same — like large waist holes and smaller leg holes — and then match them to her body . |
| 19 | Not all living things fly , but they do other things that are just as improbable , and just as specifiable in advance . |
| 20 | Well at times I feel like erm you 're dealing with things that are just totally beyond you and you feel as if you 're sinking and feel totally helpless . |
| 21 | The insanity of the disease — being compelled repeatedly to do things that are utterly self-destructive — requires constant readjustments to the " 'pictures ' " of reality . |
| 22 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 23 | The weather was a lot worse this time and there was plenty of opportunity to think about things that are really important . |
| 24 | No he he makes you do an awful lot of things that are really unnecessary . |
| 25 | How can computers create things that are genuinely new and not just ‘ what you put in ’ ? |
| 26 | These are the kind of things that are actually on cosmetic products . |
| 27 | So that there 's a kind of assessment built in there … but that piece of work goes forward in the end and is more , slightly more , formally assessed in the sense that we give them direct feedback on performance , and that runs from technical notes , director 's notes , to a very much more abstract formal assessment , which is essentially subjective , ‘ How does one feel about this piece , the atmosphere it creates ’ , … and that 's quite different from director 's notes , which can be of a technical variety to do with voice , movement , audibility , characterization , anything ; the things that are actually being described , analysed , looked at in the end … |
| 28 | ‘ He talks about things that are intuitively relevant to everyday life . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But then , for those things that are more filled out , to do them properly you 'd really have to get a few musicians out there . |
| 30 | The sing about things that are more important than ‘ slimy bog-eyed mong worms ’ ( top one , Shaun ) , or ‘ catching the breeze ’ ( you know who you are , Tarquin ) . |