Example sentences of "thing be [that] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 2 | The important thing is that they 're very arbitrary . |
| 3 | The infuriating thing is that he is always right . ’ |
| 4 | The upsetting thing is that I am not going to get any real Sheffield Shield cricket to get back into enough form to earn a Test before this summer is over . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The great thing is that I 'm not feeling any pressure with my bowling any more . |
| 6 | ‘ The ridiculous thing is that I was n't remotely attracted to Karen . |
| 7 | The important thing is that you 're here — with me . ’ |
| 8 | The important thing is that you 're here . |
| 9 | but I think the other thing is that it 's just a question of the people in our business supposed to be being professional communicators |
| 10 | The thing is that it 's obviously genuine sentiment and that 's why I like The Smiths . |
| 11 | ‘ The silly thing is that it was n't painful , not at all . |
| 12 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 13 | The only thing was that it was n't Noreen . |
| 14 | The only surprising thing was that it was all less irksome than he had imagined . |
| 15 | You know , I think the thing was that he was out of date , and by the time he wrote the second book he knew it . |