Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 2 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 3 | Until the FRC and its cohorts have made substantial progress in imposing uniformity in accounting matters , the profession will continue to be criticised because companies account for the same things in different ways . |
| 4 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 5 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 6 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because everyone who comes along to interview me has , as you have Paul , read all the clippings , then they all want to talk about the same things , and I become this kind of caricature . |
| 8 | You see , a lot of the clichés about me are true and for real , it 's just in the end you can get tired talking about the same things . ’ |
| 9 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 10 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 11 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 12 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 13 | One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April . |
| 14 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 15 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 16 | One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 18 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 19 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school . |
| 21 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
| 22 | One of the many things my parents taught me was how to entertain properly . |
| 23 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 24 | Usually , their transposition appears in the songs , but men and women are definitely capable of the same things . ’ |
| 25 | You relate as two real adults who probably share values and attitudes , enjoy many of the same things , doing them together and who care about the well-being and happiness of one another . |
| 26 | The probability of correctly recalling a junction appears to be related to many of the same things as subjective risk — traffic seen , time spent at the junction , objective and estimated risk . |
| 27 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 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 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 30 | 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 . |