Example sentences of "of [art] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the principle of the thing that mattered . |
| 2 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 3 | There was no allegation of negligence on their part and Rylands v. Fletcher was inapplicable because there had been no ‘ escape ’ of the thing that inflicted the injury . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just the principle of the thing that struck me . ’ |
| 5 | I think we need another war to get rid of the er get rid of some of the thing that 's happening at the present day . |
| 6 | This means that the light , instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells , has to pass through a forest of connecting wires , pre-sumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion ( actually probably not much but , still , it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer ! ) . |
| 7 | It 's just the principle of the thing that a booking 's a booking , whoever |
| 8 | So you write the car 's windscreen , The Sue 's bike , and the King 's head , it 's it 's an owner , plus possession , and the owner has the apostrophe of the thing that comes immediately afterwards . |
| 9 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 11 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 12 | of a thing that I know . |