Example sentences of "things [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 2 | Thomas seemed to be seeing things through the wrong end of a telescope . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , I have n't had a look at the things for a long time , ’ Müller remarked . |
| 4 | ‘ Around here , there are two things for a working-class kid to do : steal or box . ’ |
| 5 | It was again , one of the unheard of things for a Jewish man to do ! |
| 6 | Ann will look after things for a few days . |
| 7 | Delay things for a few days ? ’ |
| 8 | Bad things for a bad thing to happen over Christmas , it 's worse . |
| 9 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 10 | Each state in the Soviet equivalent of the EEC would specialize in producing certain things for the general good . |
| 11 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 12 | An Ajdabiyan shopkeeper , who was a member of a state-supported co-operative created to diminish the consequences of eventual socialism , was the father of a revolutionary cadre with responsibility among other things for the financial affairs of Ajdabiya . |
| 13 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |
| 14 | Now big lorries went past every five minutes , carrying things for the new buildings . |
| 15 | The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery . |
| 16 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 17 | Amanda Mares , the producer , might bear in mind that listeners hearing things for the first time need a second or two to focus . |
| 18 | Many people seemed to become aware of such things for the first time in their lives . |
| 19 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 20 | but it falls down in front of the unexpected , when you actually do see things for the first time . |
| 21 | ‘ I did all the wrong things for the best of reasons , ’ she whispered sadly . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , those people who want to develop Labour politics in the province and to change things for the better should at least be given the chance to try . |
| 23 | May we use our anger in a productive way to try and change things for the better . |
| 24 | They should also be building the conviction of teachers that it is possible to change things for the better . |
| 25 | What about learning how to change things for the better rather than merely learning to adapt to the way things are now ? |
| 26 | Er I ca n't , you know , there seems to be an inconsistency in so many people who are against national wars but er would say that what we need is a revolutionary situation in order to change things for the better within society . |
| 27 | How can we appeal to part time workers and convince them that we can change things for the better , many of whom are home workers who are working in appalling conditions and often for less than fifty pence an hour ? |
| 28 | That means working to change things for the better . |
| 29 | This , it seems to me , is a them that is of abiding significance , because we all of us do things for the wrong reasons , and yet it 's all rather magnificently tied up with the attempt to build a glorious spire to a medieval cathedral . |
| 30 | This provided among other things for the direct election of the President and of the legislature , the right to strike , the abolition of the death penalty and the right to private property . |