Example sentences of "things [that] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 2 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 3 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 4 | The things that make a modern killer PC , such as swift video performance , are irrelevant for network servers — so mundane is their existence that they can do without a screen or a keyboard . |
| 5 | THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE A HOME |
| 6 | You dress casually , you do n't care about all the things that make a city tick — finance , politics , big business — and when you 're working , you live in a makebelieve world most of the time . ’ |
| 7 | And Hilary had dash , and style , and good looks — all the usual things that make a schoolboy hero . |
| 8 | Innovative thinking , intelligent risk taking , commitment to quality and customer service — in short , all the things that make a business successful — can not happen without a talented and dedicated workforce . |
| 9 | Two things that make a people a top earner here of course is one of them one of them in addition to graft , is that they wo n't sit back and sign up one deal and be very satisfied in a day . |
| 10 | But the very things that make the hay rich are the things that now make it poor . |
| 11 | And , as always , it 's the little things that make the difference . |
| 12 | It 's precisely those things that make the pain so … never mind . |
| 13 | Our happiness lies , as Jesus said , in doing the things that please the Father . |
| 14 | He encouraged others to paint by describing his own method : sketch books taken on his travels were filled with ‘ small drawings of things that hold the eye ’ . |
| 15 | In fact , there are a great many things that keep the family going . |
| 16 | Here near to Foxton are examples of all sorts of things that excite the blood of the canal enthusiast : a delightful cut through the centre of the village taking the boatman to the once prosperous wharves and building yards of Market Harborough ; a wonderful hand-operated swingbridge allowing the more adventurous visitors to negotiate Swingbridge Lane on their own ; visible and tangible memories of boatmen 's inns . |
| 17 | The switchboard was jammed the first night I wore them — it really is odd the little things that bring an instant response . |
| 18 | Others did n't really seem prepared to do things that demanded a response from people . |
| 19 | She was missing the aubergines and things that brightened the street-markets of London and was discommoded by the absence of garlic . |
| 20 | And the problem is , although they are er very negative for the environment , they destroy rivers , they effect the navigation , they are quite popular with the population , with the peasants , with the indians , because they bring money , they bring activities , they bring weapons , they bring all sorts of things that break the isolation of those populations that live along the rivers or er in the middle of the forest . |
| 21 | As time has progressed I have produced a bit more and I have been prepared to show things that went a bit further back ; I have extended the oeuvre at both ends . |
| 22 | The first things that strike the reader , when encountering Alfieri 's first speech , are the quality of grammar and fluency of speech , and then when compared to those of other characters , Alfieri seems a comparative genius . |
| 23 | Look at the surrounding skyline and pick out things that catch the eye — the flashy Porsche in the car-park , the dark cloud looming or the ugly building that sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 24 | Now , would n't it be possible to imagine someone who maintained both that motor cars were on our list of things that enhanced the quality of life and that travelling by motor car frequently took more time and demanded a greater outlay of labour than using various other means of transport ? |
| 25 | Little things that mean a lot |
| 26 | There is no justification in attempting to emphasise the superficially attractive at the expense of those things that form the core of our work . |
| 27 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 28 | And these are all things that made the Co-op so personal did n't they really . |
| 29 | The prime minister and his advisers will sometimes want to do things that cost a lot of money ; the Treasury will want to rein back . |
| 30 | When considering those things that prevent the successful implementation of curriculum project materials and strategies , Bolam ( 1975 ) located most barriers within the ‘ user system ’ . |