Example sentences of "thing that [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have both a family and interesting work means a terrible struggle , and yet I think that those are the things that make for human happiness . |
| 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 | There were things that looked like ragged mushrooms growing out of the wall . |
| 4 | Ask the children to replace things that belong in each area ( Home Corner , shop , water tray , etc . ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So many things that rely on new techniques are in the pipeline for consumers , such as interactive compact discs where you can see and hear , and choose or even change , sound and vision on your TV , satellite broadcasts for instant world news and events , liquid crystal displays ( called LCDs ) will replace our aging CRTs ( cathode ray tubes ) so we can watch HDTV ( high definition TV ) . |
| 7 | She said there was this female , that the other thing , and there was a whole long list of things that pointed to this interpretation , and it was all part of a , as you say a great mass of data , that erm , is , is quite mind-bogglingly large , if you actually erm , see it in words . |
| 8 | Is n't it awful , ’ said Breeze , ‘ that so many of the nice things that happen to one person have a sort of reflex action on another ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One thing that works at this time forget today and yesterday and all the week it 's the number of children that come into this playhouse now we have us we have a thing called work experience where they come from the school 's and the poor little bugger 's have got ta work with me . . |
| 11 | But it 's a strange kind of thing that happened in this part of the country , the kind of story you get in Suffolk and Norfolk . |