Example sentences of "[adj] thing [be] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing is that it does n't seem to influence our particular habit-forming er , take-up rates , and it does n't influence it because there is this lag period between starting smoking and developing lung cancer or developing heart disease or developing verofa ves vascular disease . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 3 | The funny thing is that you feel terrified to stay and I feel terrified to go . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 6 | The ironic thing is that he does n't owe us anything anyway . ’ |
| 7 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 8 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 9 | ‘ The only puzzling thing was that he kept muttering , ‘ There were only thirty-one , there were only thirty-one ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 11 | I think the most likely thing is that he 's had some sort of accident . |
| 12 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 13 | The more unfortunate thing is that we have a much better midfielder for the subs bench in Hodge , who can come on and is lively , aswell as likely to score a goal . |
| 14 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 15 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 16 | I mean the , the good thing is that you got all the other policies out erm on what she 's got , on what they 've got , the family 's got and the summarizing from there I , I thought you did alright . |
| 17 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’ |
| 21 | The great thing is if you 've got faith in the stuff if you have n't got faith , you need n't bother with it . |
| 22 | ‘ Sure they miss the money , but one of the most important things is that they miss the buzz . |
| 23 | One of the things about when you are old and move to a residential home I think one of the important things is that you want to go and live close to your loved ones , if you have any , and it does just worry me that if you happen to be a person who is resident in and your loved ones live in , under these terms if you went to a residential home in you would n't qualify for the higher rate and that seems to me to be wrong . |
| 24 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 25 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 26 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 27 | You may agree or disagree with these decisions ; the important thing is that we learn to appreciate the influence that the grammatical system of a language has on the way events are presented in that language . |
| 28 | I think the important thing is that we do establish with the other professionals within the school a real understanding about what we are trying to achieve , an agreement and , as far as possible , a sharing of values between us as to what we are trying to achieve with these youngsters . |
| 29 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 30 | Erm , yeah the important thing is that they know . |