Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] things that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 2 | One of the saddest things that old people find is the gradual dropping away of people who come to visit them . |
| 3 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 4 | ‘ It was one of the best things that 's ever happened . ’ |
| 5 | And as you say it 's one of the best things that they want . |
| 6 | one of the nicest things that happened to me since I 've been widowed is having Neil to look after not only is he an exception |
| 7 | I think probably one of the key things that I would want to get over to you is that we , we do n't actually hear from you enough . |
| 8 | One of the first things that should be done is to share this with your partner so that your partner can help separate fact from fiction and be sensitive . |
| 9 | She explains : ‘ One of the first things that all these countries are doing — and we 're just starting to see the benefits of this — is to install a digital overlay network linking key cities . ’ |
| 10 | One of the first things that needed to be done was to get a short survey of existing conditions , and with the help of all departments the following summary was made : Burma Today |
| 11 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |
| 12 | One of the first things that had been done when the police arrived at the house was to examine all windows and doors for signs of forcible entry . |
| 13 | One of the first things that the Labour party would do would be to change the law to make it easier for trade unions to strike . |
| 14 | One of the first things that struck troops fresh to the Verdun battlefield was the fearful stench of putrefaction ; ‘ so disgusting that it almost gives a certain charm to the odour of gas shells ’ . |
| 15 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 16 | One of the other things that leads off from a job analysis by finding out exactly what a person 's supposed to do is that you can start doing things like a personal training log , cashiers , cash sell this is a word this is real life example . |
| 17 | Er one of the other things that we want of course . |
| 18 | Erm one of the other things that , that was mentioned was the magazine he 'd seen , he 'd seen , he 'd seen the thing on |
| 19 | And and that was one of the prime things that I asked |
| 20 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 21 | One of the greatest things that I have become aware of is that if you have eight people to dinner , one or two of them will be vegetarians . |
| 22 | and although it is being set up to promote a rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for Chinese industrialization , that has not been particularly successful either in terms of the level of output and therefore the levels or in terms of inequalities in that one of the , one of the worrying things that comes through , that comes through , despite the tax system there are still very substantial inequalities and i is the promotion of mutual aid a means , a perceived means of reducing or containing those inequalities ? |
| 23 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 24 | One of the funny things that did er talking about the kettle though is that er er the number of times on full removals where You know with my re little removals you 've only got ten foot front to back , but some of these vans are huge , there 's there 's there 's twenty to thirty foot of van virtually to front . |
| 25 | Taking regular exercise is one of the healthiest things that women can do . |
| 26 | Taking regular exercise is one of the healthiest things that women can do . |
| 27 | I just wanted to bring up some of the underlying reasons for depression , and one of the large things that society is having to address just now is child sexual abuse |
| 28 | One of the few things that keeps movies worth watching is the vitality of all the marvellous comedians from Saturday Night Live and SCTV : Bill Murray , John Candy and so on , terrific personalities who can bring a vibrancy even to dead scripts . ’ |
| 29 | These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out . |
| 30 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |