Example sentences of "thing that [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , in her naïveté or her stupidity — she was never sure which — imagined herself standing at the elbow of a Valentino or an Armani , learning to drape soft wools , to design things that had classical beauty . |
| 2 | The only things that unite this class are the slowly conducting axons , the large receptive field sizes , and their poor sensitivity and resolution . |
| 3 | And things that scare most dads the most , |
| 4 | A woman like that 's a … one of those things that helps other things to get started ? ’ |
| 5 | The experience of the early curriculum projects seemed to demonstrate that it was not sufficient to change knowledge , but necessary also to change the attitudes , values and the taken-for-granted ways of doing things that govern professional activity . |
| 6 | Durability has at all times been a main attribute of the materials held in highest regard and it is precisely the most durable things that have most chance of surviving . |
| 7 | ‘ Then there were a few things that reinforced that feeling . |
| 8 | I take a furtive and secret pride in the fact that I can do all these things , that I am physically strong , can lift and carry things that defeat other women , wonder with some scorn what it must be like to have to learn to clean a house when adult , not have the ability laid down as part of the growing self . |
| 9 | as if it 's just over the horizon , waiting to happen to me , as weird and wonderful as all the things that happened last autumn . |
| 10 | There was a phase of the women 's liberation movement in the 70s that just saw the kinds of things that affect middle class women , they were into things like equal pay . |
| 11 | These included things that presented bold shapes and vivid colouring with pattern and texture . |
| 12 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 13 | Stable differentiation is the normal state of affairs , and the existence of this variation is one of the things that makes linguistic change possible , in that the different variants can be latched on to by different groups and for different social functions : thus , the patterns of consensus can change in the course of time . |
| 14 | and things that did that thing and washing up and all the rest |
| 15 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 16 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 17 | And then she kind of jumped into this absurd thing of suddenly saying that meant that all women were housewives , and that wages for housework was the thing that united all women . ’ |
| 18 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |
| 19 | Takeovers are not the only thing that keeps American car-parts suppliers looking over their shoulders . |
| 20 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
| 21 | Yes , we bought it , and there 's this thing that says Big Bess let's rip |
| 22 | It was the sort of thing that happened these days . |
| 23 | He wrote the only intelligent thing that appeared this morning . |
| 24 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 25 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 26 | The one thing that makes decent family life possible in these unpromising environments is stark drudgery ; the role of the wife and mother involves an endless round of unremitting , indeed , heart-breaking , but thankless , labour . |
| 27 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 28 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
| 29 | With the building of this new road and planned ferry we are undoubtedly destroying the very thing that makes this area so special . |