Example sentences of "is [num] [prep] [art] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is one of the things that is making our enquiries difficult . ’ |
| 2 | This is one of the things that philosophers mean when they say that our mental representations are ‘ opaque ’ : thoughts are ( necessarily partial ) representations of reality and therefore we can have one thought about a referent without having any access to another ( ‘ lover ’ / ‘ mother ’ ) . |
| 3 | But in the background you can hear the murmur of other people 's activity and this , Smith argues , is one of the things which makes Shared Ark work . |
| 4 | The fossil record is full of curious plants that do not fit comfortably into classifications — this is one of the things that makes the study of fossil plants so fascinating . |
| 5 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 6 | ‘ And keeping women in chains is one of the things I 'm going to crusade against now I 'm free . ’ |
| 7 | That is one of the things that writing does : it entices the reader into an ‘ unreal ’ world , a world ‘ really ’ only composed of funny marks on a page , and through those marks makes the reader consider something which may form no part of normal life . |
| 8 | Because praise is one of the things that will help them keep it up . |
| 9 | ‘ This is one of the things she wanted me to do . |
| 10 | And this is one of the things we rarely do . |
| 11 | This backward projection is one of the things that has motivated my own work on present-day speech communities , and my interest in how the authority of the legitimized variety is promoted in linguistic scholarship J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This attitude is one of the things that has given non-verbal communication such a bad name and since it already has a somewhat shaky reputation due to the fact that it has no powerful theory associated with it , its academic credibility suffers in comparison to that of formal linguistics . |
| 14 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 15 | And when we 're talking about defensive techniques , anticipation obviously is one of the things which is the hallmark of the top drivers is n't it ? |
| 16 | Along along the bottom time if time is one of the things you 're working with it just about always goes along the bottom . |
| 17 | And of course during the strike period er this is one of the things he used to supplement our meals with you see . |
| 18 | ‘ This is one of the things I would prefer to understand . ’ |
| 19 | The contemporary relevance of narrative fiction is one of the things that is at stake in the technological ‘ revolution ’ , and Brooke-Rose addresses the issue from a perspective that is both sceptical and hopeful , ludic and apocalyptic . |
| 20 | ‘ This is one of the things I find really amusing , ’ says Will . |
| 21 | Th it 's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee , and chocolate which we all adore , is , is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world . |
| 22 | This is one of the things that some studies have shown it to be the case , other studies have n't . |
| 23 | Although Mary very rarely cooks , trout is one of the things she prepares well . |
| 24 | So this , restricting the input , is one of the things that we get on , inverse functions . |
| 25 | Hair is one of the things I do know something about . |
| 26 | This is one of the things that makes the 486 so fast . |
| 27 | It seems to be one of the things actually that people that are home on holiday to Orkney , you know , maybe you have lived here in the past and Orkney cheese is one of the things they want to take back with them , a farmhouse cheese . |
| 28 | There is no such provision in law , and that is one of the things on which we shall legislate . |
| 29 | A sound currency is one of the things that people expect from a government that is working well . |
| 30 | This is one of the things that makes the book so long . |