Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] thing be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 2 | Paul remembers that the awful thing is that each time he never even felt carsick until after Ed threw up . |
| 3 | Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her . |
| 4 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 5 | ‘ And the other thing is that if what you say is true then you have a form of extra-sensory perception . |
| 6 | So National Savings , that 's not a bad decision , cos I mean National Savings are absolutely secure , and the other thing is that you do n't need to put twenty five thousand pounds in to get the highest rate , you 'll get the highest rate from two thousand pounds upwards , so it 's very good for small amounts . |
| 7 | And the other thing is that the river along there is full of litter anyway , and it just flows along . |
| 8 | It , and the other thing is that I , I presume that it would h it would have a file |
| 9 | And the other thing is that once we actually get into the discussion session , if you want to ask a question or make a point , then if you just put your name board up on end then I c I 'll see whether you want you know , who wants to speak . |
| 10 | And the other thing is that the second year 's payment is taken out a year 's later through the same banker 's order . |
| 11 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 12 | and the other thing is that to get this kind of continuity even at one post he 's got to work with Dave for at least six months and Dave 's going in March next year so we want a A L O in post by September of this year if that 's possible . |
| 13 | And the other thing is that it 's erm er , er Jeremy had er er , inadvertently really , er I , I know that I could have crowned him when he did it , but he was getting er , taking the lamp from the bookcase erm , which is at the end of the bookcase through to his own room to use temporarily because in trying to get the shade off his , the old one there , he , he snapped the fitting , and why , when he did that , erm , he er , disconnected the phone and of course , wiped out all the memory you know , the numbers that that you put in ! |
| 14 | Erm and the other thing was that erm when Martin picked you up for being late , you did n't even give a reason for being late . |
| 15 | And the tremendous thing is that , Nicodemus may not really have been too sure of what his needs were . |
| 16 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 17 | And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly . |
| 18 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 19 | And the nice thing was that people used to join us . |
| 20 | And the great thing is that it is such a tangible difference : in the Bentley you are faced with so much quality and classical good taste that it is relatively easy to see where your money has gone . |
| 21 | are reasonably senior , and the great thing is once they do you one favour that 's it , and it 's better because rather than have , for example a junior police officer , who has no idea of covering his tracks |
| 22 | Ryan , his charm , his humour ; those impossibly blue eyes , the golden hair , the laughing handsome face ; and the awful thing was that , if he came back tomorrow , she did n't think she 'd be immune , despite all that he had done . |
| 23 | And the dazzling thing was that quite a few made a beeline for a lady who co , could at least give thirty years ! |
| 24 | And the infuriating thing was that their disapproval mattered to her . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 26 | The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right , and the funny thing was that people who were n't entirety certain they were right always argued much louder than other people , as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't mind where I go , but I prefer opening , and the main thing is that you know where you are . ’ |
| 28 | But there is a way , you can manage you can do it and the important thing is that it 's your body that 's doing it , that your body that 's keeping the exercise going , so that when the actual pain disappears , when you 've got rid of the acid , your joints still work and your muscles are still good . |
| 29 | As a result with good control of working capital , our cash flow overall was virtually the same as in the previous year in spite of the significant profit collapse and although there may be some further redundancies this year , I do n't expect them to be in any way on the same scale as during nineteen ninety two and the important thing is that we now have costs in line with the lower level of revenue as we look into nineteen ninety three . |
| 30 | We 're also gon na look at where they live , remember what they 're income is etcetera and the important thing is because of these increases here and because of the recession in general , it dictated to us that there were gon na be more one and two person households . |