Example sentences of "[art] [det] things [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 5 | The Dolphin , the Bermuda Suite , Club 93 , the Bingo hall , a large swimming pool , a Sports hall , Amusements , these are just some of the few things that are situated at Highfield Holiday Park , Clacton , where my family and I have been going on Holiday for 10 years . |
| 6 | While we 're on this question , one of the few things that er Theresa did n't say , although perhaps she might have said it when I was n't , I do n't think she did but one of the few things she did n't say is why Freud disapproved of the typical kind of dream book you find in any book shop . |
| 7 | Um and erm that might be that 's one of th some of the few things that the library 's got but erm er anyway . |
| 8 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 9 | According to my understanding of , of Labour history , it was er during the war years , at one of the Labour Party conferences , that a NUPE resolution supported by COHSE , actually er brought about some of the , the , the many things that were written within the Beveridge report , and committed the Labour Party to the foundation of the National Health Service that would be free at the points of need for every member of the community . |
| 10 | In his reference to the poll tax , the hon. Member for Teignbridge referred to the many things that had to be built on to it and the many anomalies that had to be addressed . |
| 11 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 12 | This is what he hoped for , and one the many things that tended to dispirit him was the fact that it was so little forthcoming . |
| 13 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 14 | Clover , Luke , Mum , Dad , Granny , Grandpa and Speedy the dog all do the same things but in their own , different ways . |
| 15 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 16 | The same things that were promised for the gas , electricity and water , but in rel reality the only section to gain are the fat cats at the top who have recently been given it 's obscene pay increases . |
| 17 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 18 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 19 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 20 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 21 | And they always say the same things and you think , oh you told us that yesterday . |
| 22 | But self-confidence in the sense of psychological certitude is not the same things as absolute certainty in the philosophical sense . |
| 23 | I know there 's an attitude at home — men are people but women are only women — but that 's not the same things as putting your women in purdah . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I am still doing exactly the same things as I did before the operation but at a slower pace . |
| 25 | Historically the computational approach has been most actively pursued by engineers eager to build machines that can do the same things as humans . |
| 26 | It does not matter if you do not have exactly the same things as are shown in the drawing ; alter the design to suit what you have . |
| 27 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As has already been observed by the Dominican , Conrad Pepler : we need not to labour the fact that Hilton is writing the same things as St John of the Cross , … |
| 30 | Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to . |