Example sentences of "thing [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The antithetical models of design 's significance that we possess today , all of which contain implicitly or explicitly a view of " design-and-society " relations ( for example the view that sees design as merely the activity of commodity shaping , or the view that sees design as the activity which alone allows us to organise consciously the meeting of material human needs — which " involve things or usable products " — in forms consonant with and conducive to particular kinds of social relations or ways of life … ) contain also , naturally , a view of what design is . |
| 2 | Cos these are the things that upset women and |
| 3 | We talked for hours on end about the existence or otherwise of God , the futility of human life , and all the other things that sixteen-year-old girls find to discuss . |
| 4 | Children at play do things that inhibited adults would never do . |
| 5 | But I think , we 've not been good attracting women into services , I think , the responsibility that a woman drug user has over child care and a whole range of other things that male drug users do n't have . |
| 6 | It would have been a great deal more difficult because military aircraft use more volatile fuel , and they tend to be armed , they tend to be carrying things that civil aircraft do n't normally carry , so yes , it would 've been much more difficult . |
| 7 | A developing developing regional democracy is erm is a difficult thing to get to get across and it 's one of those things that Liberal Democrats talk away for hours about at their Conferences . |
| 8 | She was used to his ostrich ways — his ability to bury his head in the sand and shut out the things that displeased or upset him . |
| 9 | And that 's you see , this is one of the things that contemporary critics , some contemporary critics could n't take , that Jane wanted Rochester as much as Rochester |
| 10 | Let's hear about all the good things that young people are doing around our diocese . |
| 11 | One would think , one of the things that young people decide was that they wanted facilities in their area . |
| 12 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 13 | One of the things that experienced care staff do is talk about anything that is bothering them . |
| 14 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 15 | But if you want to play things that sound good and you have those limitations , then often you have to resort to things that other people would n't do . |
| 16 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 17 | I was keener on the pictures than on the prose and therefore skipped most of the moral rearmament propaganda : ‘ hobbies ’ , like ‘ pocket money ’ , were things that other kids had , so I was never tempted to make a jet-propelled car with a Sparklets bulb ( whatever that was ) . |
| 18 | A great many things that other people did all the time she had never done . |
| 19 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 20 | More than , Marenches said later that the Shah had told him , " I count on you always to tell me the disagreeable things that other people wo n't say . |
| 21 | I could only presume that as this was April they were concerned with spawning and were only doing all the strange things that other species do when pre-occupied with that activity . |
| 22 | But those kinds of relatively trivial aspects of socialization cl clearly affect it , but again shame can be a much deeper emotion in people and some people you know get , irrationally get very shameful about certain things that other people do n't , and you wonder why . |
| 23 | There is a question as to whether public life , she 'd be treated differently erm and also whether in fact journalist by not being able to do things that other people can do if they 're not writing a newspaper . |
| 24 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 25 | Maybe these people are defining sexual harassment as things that other people would n't define it has . |
| 26 | Stoner in fact discovered , as I did eventually , that asking the obvious , straightforward things that worried opponents of nuclear power often got much more interesting answers than any attempt to confront the technicalities . |
| 27 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important , before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to , to work . |
| 28 | So one tries to build up a kind of agenda of all the things that different people involved think might be important before one tries to produce a plan as to how one 's going to work , and even then there may be a chance for you actually to discuss the plan with various people as well . |
| 29 | Tool using was considered an indicator of intelligence , and it was one of the things that separated Homo sapiens from the rest of the animal kingdom . |
| 30 | He eats properly ; he exercises regularly ; he reads the occasional book ; he talks to people regularly and listens ; he thinks ; he goes home and forgets about work problems all things that lesser mortals sacrifice when under stress . |