Example sentences of "things [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best things about being free and easy is I 'm always available , ’ he says . |
| 2 | These skills are important for everyone — boys and girls — and include things like being able to use equipment safely with good results , being able to weigh and measure accurately , being able to plan , design and carry out practical tasks . |
| 3 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 4 | Mexicans in the moonlight , surging towards her over the stubble , old wrinkled women , kids with the bulbous stomachs , things to be honest she did n't see because they drove past too quickly on the motorway . |
| 5 | They like things to be loud and dramatic , and if there 's one thing you ca n't have in good sorcery , it 's loud noises and drama . |
| 6 | And even as a child , she wanted things to be possible . |
| 7 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 8 | it 's complete in itself and er people by human nature like things to be complete or whole it is it is emotionally satisfying . |
| 9 | I like things to be straightforward , almost black and white . |
| 10 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 11 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 12 | It 's one of the delightful , I 've been recruiting for a long time and it 's it 's one of those erm delightful things to be able to say to people on the phone when they tell me they 're fifty or fifty four to say that 's not a problem . |
| 13 | His father bad wanted things to be different , as Edith Thompson had , in love with Freddie Bywaters , as Mrs Maybrick had , and Mrs Fulham . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's only two weeks and I want things to be slow ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Contemn the world' ’ ( Saith he ) ‘ and count all that is in it vanity and toys ; this only covet all thy life long ; be not over-solicitous in anything , but with a well-composed and contented estate to enjoy thyself , and above all things to be merry . ' ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't spoil things by being conventional , Joe ! |