Example sentences of "thing [that] [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah then all the things that times ten . |
| 2 | A woman like that 's a … one of those things that helps other things to get started ? ’ |
| 3 | Now um I suppose in that context um one of the things that makes this perhaps rather difficult to understand is the way in which y'know kind of when you look at children playing , when you talk to children , they 'll often express a good deal of curiosity about sexuality um both to each-other and to adults . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's part of the same thing that allows Royal marriages to break-up and sex before marriage . |
| 6 | The most common thing that goes wrong with taps is that they leak either because the gland or packing has failed ( a leak from the top when the tap is open ) or because the washer has worn ( a leak from the spout when the tap is closed ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Takeovers are not the only thing that keeps American car-parts suppliers looking over their shoulders . |
| 9 | Yes , we bought it , and there 's this thing that says Big Bess let's rip |
| 10 | Do n't know I would think that it 's , she told me twenty five pounds so I thought it was gon na be like cash or something and then I read the thing that says twenty five pound voucher but it did n't say what for , it just says voucher knowing my luck it 'll be book tokens ! |
| 11 | ‘ Well , there 's one thing that seems sure to me : she 's not goin' to have it as easy as she 's had it up till now , by the sound of her . ’ |
| 12 | The only thing that unites these three arrangements is that in each case a minority class rules and takes the surplus away from the producers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If I can think of one thing that makes modern software easy to use leading up to Windows it is the split screen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With the building of this new road and planned ferry we are undoubtedly destroying the very thing that makes this area so special . |
| 18 | The thing that makes this worse is that they really have meant well and were , I believe genuinely concerned . |
| 19 | It would seem as if people were ready to write about every aspect of higher education — its aims , policies , governance , finance , organization , staff , students — except the one thing that gives all these their raison d'être . |
| 20 | ‘ Moreover , the very thing that triggers this evolutionary pattern is that which is normally guaranteed to defend the body against disease — the immunisation programme ! ’ |