Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] thing be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one certain thing is that workfare has no place in the economic policy of a civilized country . |
| 2 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 3 | ‘ The only odd thing is that according to the military history , the place had been overrun by American First Army , either the 3rd or 9th Division , I ca n't quite make out their boundary line , nearly two weeks before . ’ |
| 4 | The only other thing is that er I was . |
| 5 | The only surprising thing was that it was all less irksome than he had imagined . |
| 6 | Wickham 's initial feeling was that if it were true the only surprising thing was that Barron had not flown away sooner . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , it was a terribly hard decision to make , because my album just came out two months ago here and the only negative thing is that I ca n't be here to promote it . |
| 8 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 9 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 10 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |
| 11 | ‘ The only puzzling thing was that he kept muttering , ‘ There were only thirty-one , there were only thirty-one ’ . ’ |
| 12 | The other strange thing is that they look happy all the time . |
| 13 | The other important thing is that a spotlight was going to be shone on this programme and that would reveal both the beauty spots of community care and the warts and the carbuncles . |
| 14 | The other important thing is that the learning rule is not a graded descent learning rule or a searching lear learning rule as we 've seen before . |