Example sentences of "[be] [num] [prep] [art] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 2 | The pressure of foreign debt has been one of the main things pushing Poland and Hungary towards freer markets , and one dominant problem in most East European economies is too much cash and too-fast inflation . |
| 3 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 4 | Being nervous and taking risks are two of the main things you will have to face as an aspiring actor , and that first time you read a play with a group of strangers , rather than in a classroom or among friends is when you confront your first hurdle . |
| 5 | There 's hundreds of the bloody things int there ? |
| 6 | That is one of the great things about the club golfer he is so stoical and resistant to his own poor play . |
| 7 | And this I I find is one of the helpful things and when you get together not during the actual talking the actual session but er . |
| 8 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 9 | You can buy it on a Tuesday up in London , which is one of the good things about London |
| 10 | And in fact that is one of the affecting things : the story that we read is undoubtedly a love-story . |
| 11 | The comical thing is one of the comical things is there 's quite a lot of money go into some of those corporation houses you know ? |
| 12 | Well sir , they 're , we support dipping because it 's already been stated to note that we make most of the money for Shropshire from farming , and sheep is one of the big things which we sell all over the country , but unless we can guarantee our sheep are clear of er , disease people are n't going to come here and buy meat and stuff are they ? |
| 13 | That is , if you 're concentrating and observing , which is one of the cardinal things I 've already mentioned . |
| 14 | My boss is very clever and thinks that presentation is one of the main things to think about . |
| 15 | There are many sacred cows with within this organization that must be preserved , principally our regional structure , our regional financial structure , er is one of the main things that we have to preserve . |
| 16 | That is one of the attractive things about the business : that there is no long tail . |
| 17 | That is one of the attractive things about the business : that there is no long tail Direct line headquarters : Our only property we use |
| 18 | So is that , er , I mean , in the in the characterisation we 've got , is is there particular personalities coming through here , because I think that 's one of the other things we need to make sure in the script , that we 've got a consistent view of certain personalities . |
| 19 | Well just It 's one of the other things I was gon na a It 's still about the farm actually , I was gon na ask er about things like H your tasks your was there anything like things like the harvesting would you have people coming in to help you ? |
| 20 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 21 | You said about the buyer 's guide that it 's , that you were a representative of Friends Provident , you 're an employee and it 's very very important to stress that because people like Abbey National were appointed representatives but we are employees and that 's one of the things , that 's one of the good things you can get out of the buyer 's guide . |
| 22 | Yes , that 's one of the interesting things about this . |
| 23 | And and that was one of the prime things that I asked |
| 24 | Well I was hoping it 'd be interesting I mean I thought this was one of the key things at the training day I went to and I picked |
| 25 | Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes . |
| 26 | So being on supplementary benefit was one of the obvious things that people in the dayroom , chose to look at , cos it affected most of them . |
| 27 | Whispering about people when they had left the room was one of the naughty things she did n't do . |
| 28 | When the ‘ Robert Johnson , Father of the Delta Blues ’ album came out , that was one of the main things that made me want to play slide . |