Example sentences of "[det] thing as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common sense tells us that this requires some form of trading activity , and although this will cover such things as the purchase of raw materials , capital equipment , etc. , it should be noted that if such actions were merely preparatory to the later formation of a company then these can not be considered as the actions of a partnership ‘ carrying on a business ’ . |
| 2 | The long list in section 2 includes such things as the quantity , composition , method of manufacture , fitness for purpose and date of manufacture of the goods . |
| 3 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 4 | The auxiliary impression , he suggested , was due to such things as the skin being of different thicknesses at different parts of the body , the fact that sometimes it extends over the firm surfaces of the bones , sometimes over the flesh of the muscles , sometimes over cavities , and so on . |
| 5 | But I will take such things as the brickwork , or maybe the roof tiles into account , and work to achieve a complementary landscape . ’ |
| 6 | Speaker skills comprise such things as the ability to provide critical information , and the number of trials or messages to identify the target . |
| 7 | Thus the test results must be interpreted in the light of such things as the ability of the students in the school and the resources available . |
| 8 | In School A , this took the form of a plan to relocate the library , but in other project schools plans focused on such things as the development of a video network , the creation of display areas and the development of a careers room as part of the library complex . |
| 9 | The other big complaint is that the commissioners are constantly raising their standards and are insensitive to national differences in such things as the colour of water ( Britain has a lot of discoloured water , because it has a lot of peaty soil ) . |
| 10 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 11 | In The German Ideology , Marx had hypothesized that the concepts with which , in capitalist society , we understand such things as the State , law , and property are moulded for the purpose of domination . |
| 12 | It was claimed that a ‘ natural ’ rate of unemployment existed in an economy at any particular time , determined by such things as the state of technology and any impediments to the free movement of labour such as restrictive work practices . |
| 13 | In casual encounters with neighbourhood police while on the beat , members of the public complained of such things as the life-style of next-door neighbours , noisy traffic , and parked lorries . |
| 14 | The listener is better able to recognise the grammar and syntactic structure of what is being said by using the information contained in the intonation : for example , such things as the placement of boundaries between phrases , clauses or sentences , the difference between questions and statements and the use of grammatical subordination may be indicated . |
| 15 | Such things as the tenor drum , tubular bells , cow bells , jingles , castanets ( useful for Spanish rhapsodies ) , gong ( sinister , solemn , Chinese ) , tabor ( Old English ) , etc. , etc. , need not be spoken of in detail . |
| 16 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 17 | Easements cover such things as the erection of advertising hoardings , etc , on the premises of the owner . |
| 18 | Tort considers such things as the caterer 's liability for negligently prepared food which causes injury to the customer . |
| 19 | The aim of the audit is to select one contractor every two weeks and to check such things as the implementation of health and safety plans , to ensure that all documentation is in order and that safety training programmes are being undertaken on an ongoing basis . |
| 20 | Rules deal with such things as the use of Hansard and the extent to which the long title can be used in interpretation . |
| 21 | Feminist liberation is bourgeois and talks about such things as the legalization of abortion . |
| 22 | The code contrast here seems to relate to such things as the distinction between talk about action and talk as action , the degree of speaker involvement in , or distance from , a message , whether a statement reflects personal opinion or knowledge , whether it refers to specific instances or has the authority of a generally known fact . |
| 23 | Contract covers such things as the booking of a hotel room , the provision of a meal in a restaurant and the employment of staff . |
| 24 | A great deal of information is contained in the numerous books already cited in this chapter as worthy of forming part of a personal library , and the local researcher should not lose sight of the early comparative data obtainable from the published Domesday folios , and the later in such things as the hearth tax assessments , all of which volumes are well worth places on private shelves . |
| 25 | Many special instruments have been developed to help us to find out about such things as the pressure of air in the lungs and the vocal tract , the flow of air out of the mouth and nose , the opening and closing of the vocal folds and of the soft palate , and the movement of articulators like the lips and the lower jaw . |
| 26 | Several did not understand the curriculum , while teaching staff had little idea of the contracts and conditions of service of support staff ; governors ' perceptions of such things as the cleaning contract were often hazy . |
| 27 | Although specific assessments are heavily contextualized and influenced by such things as the time of day and fashion ( Rubinstein 1973 : 249 ) , the evaluations are standardized into discrete types of abnormal situation . |
| 28 | We have the poll tax because there is no such thing as the sovereignty of Parliament . |
| 29 | They have been more willing than other historians to accept at face value his retrospective remark of 1824 : " The branch who broke the frames never contemplated any such thing as the combining . " |
| 30 | And this means , by MP , that no non-observational sentence has a meaning all its own ; for there is no such thing as the difference its truth would make to observation . |