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 | A woman like that 's a … one of those things that helps other things to get started ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These included things that presented bold shapes and vivid colouring with pattern and texture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 10 | Takeovers are not the only thing that keeps American car-parts suppliers looking over their shoulders . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes , we bought it , and there 's this thing that says Big Bess let's rip |
| 13 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |