Example sentences of "thing [that] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scholarship and sport and money and poetry : four of the things that mattered to the young Welshman , and something else he needed more : opportunity . |
| 2 | This is a central example of the problem , but it is not the only example even with respect to norms , and it will be helpful to distinguish various things that fall under the general heading of a ‘ norm ’ . |
| 3 | Though all things that exist in the extra-mental world are particulars and singular , it is nevertheless possible for us to form essentially general or abstract ideas . |
| 4 | Erm there are different things that e effect consumer policy , environmental policy , and there are lots of things that happen in the educational field . |
| 5 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 6 | The only thing that worked with the odd fish was the open bale-arm , but more often than not the bream dropped the bait before I struck . |
| 7 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 8 | But I think the thing that runs through the whole collection and that makes Doisneau a remarkable photographer , is that he 's photographed the same locality and this is the locality where he still lives , really from the early 30s right through to the present . |
| 9 | The nut itself is a curious thing that grows from the so-called cashew apple , and both are filled with a nasty acid fluid that causes dermatitis . |