Example sentences of "of [art] [det] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 2 | One of the many things that Mrs Thatcher has learned during her time in politics is how to milk election campaigns . |
| 3 | One of the many things which I love about New Scientist is the way you print the odd spoof article or two in the issue nearest 1 April . |
| 4 | This brings me back to one of the many things shared by all three races . |
| 5 | In his first letter from there he makes a significant little admission to Theo , and encloses a sketch : ‘ I should like to begin making hasty sketches of some of the many things I meet … but as it would probably keep me from my real work it is better not to start . ’ |
| 6 | One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the many things I do n't understand is why Riddle was so generally disliked , even hated . |
| 8 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 9 | It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's one of the many things I acquired a taste for at school . |
| 11 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
| 12 | One of the many things my parents taught me was how to entertain properly . |
| 13 | One of the several things we would advise any visitor to San Gimignano to do is to be in its main square , Piazza della Cisterna , towards evening when the light of the setting sun tinges the buildings with delicate colours . |
| 14 | Usually , their transposition appears in the songs , but men and women are definitely capable of the same things . ’ |
| 15 | You relate as two real adults who probably share values and attitudes , enjoy many of the same things , doing them together and who care about the well-being and happiness of one another . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ONE OF the few things you can do more efficiently in an aircraft than anywhere else is get drunk . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | One of the few things he could instantly recall from his own brief marriage was his wife 's grilling a kipper on a gridiron over the fire . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 22 | It is called Macrae 's Monument and is one of the few things left in Ayrshire to remind us of a very remarkable man called James Macrae . |
| 23 | One of the few things we do n't know , though , are their slogans . |
| 24 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 25 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 26 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
| 27 | One of the few things about the penal system that almost everyone agrees on is that England and Wales have an alarmingly high ( and most of the time rapidly rising ) number of people in prison . |
| 28 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 29 | ‘ If you wear that , ’ he said curtly , ‘ you 'll destroy one of the few things your father possessed . |
| 30 | 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 . |