Example sentences of "things that [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 2 | It is natural to borrow such words as " reproduce " and " generation " , which have associations with living things , because living things are the main examples we know of things that participate in cumulative selection . |
| 3 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 4 | I am prepared to argue that doing business involves , even at the lower levels in an organization but especially at the higher levels of management , semantic problem-solving ; for example , agreeing on boundaries , identifying individuals , establishing and maintaining classifications , conjecturing ways of doing things that belong in no existing formal schema . |
| 5 | Ask the children to replace things that belong in each area ( Home Corner , shop , water tray , etc . ) . |
| 6 | A lot of them do n't like all that countryside or the things that grow in it . |
| 7 | You feel guilty in the here and now about things that happened in the past which you can not correct . |
| 8 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 9 | The example serves to show , however , that almost any period in history is open to you if the things that happened in the past set your imagination whirling . |
| 10 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 11 | Though all things that exist in the extra-mental world are particulars and singular , it is nevertheless possible for us to form essentially general or abstract ideas . |
| 12 | Then , as Alex Saward , Harlequins ' press officer , put it , ‘ one of those things that happen in rugby ’ happened . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ There are things that happen in life over which you have no control . |
| 14 | Erm I was looking through some of the books for some of the startling figures and things that happen in world trade . |
| 15 | And how they choose to spend it can affect things that happen in the world . |
| 16 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 17 | Erm there are different things that e effect consumer policy , environmental policy , and there are lots of things that happen in the educational field . |
| 18 | Yeah it 's for some er it 's for somebody to get a general idea of the kind of things that happen in lectures . |
| 19 | It 's almost always about the sort of fringe things that happen in schools , the not strictly educational erm organisational matters about when to bring bits of equipment and which day the term 's going to finish , but very few schools put much into writing about how they teach maths , or what the children are going to be doing that term as a topic . |
| 20 | But I mean it 's a subset of the things that appear in Yellow Pages and also contains all the postcodes we 're ever going to need to use . |
| 21 | Dave : ‘ Human beings , rats and pigeons , they 're all survivors , they 're the only things that live in the city . ’ |
| 22 | As for what the head contains , well , yes , Johnny needs some of the things that live in there : will , desire , perversity . |
| 23 | Even the grass makes more grass , and all the small things that live in the grass reproduce their kind , until summer is over . |
| 24 | The coverage of live sport on our screens is usually good ; at times exceptional , but television fails to deal with some of the things that matter in sport : all-seat football stadiums , Manchester 's application for the Olympic Games in the year 2000 , payment in Rugby Union . |