Example sentences of "things that [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , one of the things that depresses me , is probably the main thing that depresses me is not being valued for what I am or what I do and I think many women suffer from depression because their strengths and their creativity are not recognised and valued . |
| 2 | This respect is summed up by a quote in In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman : ‘ You know , one of the things that strikes me most about McDonald 's is their people orientation . |
| 3 | What bothered me mo well wha one of the things that bothers me is the fact that he said that he would n't like to do hospital chaplaincy because he would n't like to go visiting because he 's got no small talk . |
| 4 | It 's one of the things that gets me down about it . |
| 5 | Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's one of the things that keeps my faith in pop music , no matter what nonsense gets put out in its name . |
| 7 | The absolute discipline of drama training is one of the major things that helps you all the time . |
| 8 | Well that 's all the things that concerns us . |
| 9 | One of the things that concerns us is provision for people who are unemployed and we are we are speaking and working , speaking to and working with the Labour Group and the Labour Party on establishing a centre for people who are unemployed . |
| 10 | Then she breathes out and gives a real smile — one of those big things that brightens her face like a starburst — and I see she 's been frightened , and I sigh , and suddenly I 've got a lump in my throat and I 'm trembling and I do n't think I can move away from this wall . |
| 11 | Hobbes ' solution was , order must be imposed on a recalcitrant human nature , to make society possible , Rousseau 's theory was , if only people could be liberated from the things that makes them selfish , selfish and anti-social , they would come together in a natural social contract , where individuals would spontaneously give up their freedom , in order to gain the benefits of social cooperation , and Rousseau 's view was , if only people were , were fully rational , and could free themselves from the unfortunate effects of , of er civilization , they would enter into a state of erm , perfect society in which they could er , associate er without the , the necessity of things like the state or or whatever . |
| 12 | But again it 's , it 's another one of these things that makes it really complicated . |
| 13 | One of the things that makes his account so useful — so much more than the anecdotal triviality of which he is so carelessly accused — is his ability to compare and contrast this informal repair work with the formal structures of explicit legal process . |
| 14 | ‘ Suppose it 's one of those things that follows you round — like Tutankhamun 's mummy . ’ |
| 15 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 16 | the not getting better with normal things that gives it away . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the things that worries me is too many parents allow their kids to see videos classified 15 or 18 . |
| 18 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |