Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] things [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the appalling things is the way you joined your co-accused in your wickedness . |
| 2 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 3 | He reports from Cairo : ‘ One of the finest things is the camel . |
| 4 | So she said that big girl ! oh I think I 'm getting it so I said , but I know you used to talk about it , and I said here we go ! and her I did n't know the others , but Tom said one of the other things is a it 's this girl , but I said no she 's got a and then she said and I , and I thought that 's a big , I did n't know ! |
| 5 | One of the group 's members observed : ‘ One of the worrying things is the utter secrecy that surrounds all these prospecting activities now taking place — it 's extremely difficult to get any information about what 's going on and what people 's rights are and what dangers are involved ’ . |
| 6 | One of the strangest things is how little I think of Sophie and Ben . |
| 7 | One of the main things is being able to spot faults . |
| 8 | ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst . |
| 9 | One of the important things is to enjoy the preparation and not make it into a chore . |
| 10 | No I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebody |
| 11 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 12 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 13 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 14 | 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 ? |