Example sentences of "a thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And there is a thing that this wild part is very good for . |
| 2 | It is also a thing that even the most experienced reviewer can not always offer . |
| 3 | It was a thing that was created by popular demand . |
| 4 | It is a thing that very many dieters do ; it is a learnt behaviour resulting primarily from over-restriction of food . |
| 5 | Further , they would have the satisfaction of investing money in a thing that was calculated to add materially to enhancing the town and district . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There 's not a thing that 's wrong with me ! ’ he was protesting , breathless , his hands and knees trembling . |
| 7 | It is a thing that is only important if you are some sort of lonely fan who loves The Wedding Present and thinks that David is a lovely , sincere person . |
| 8 | ‘ Sex is important to everybody but I think it 's been blown up into a thing that you must have and do . ’ |
| 9 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 10 | This was a thing that I had to judge entirely for myself . |
| 11 | They are not going to say a thing that can help Portland in any way whatsoever . |
| 12 | ‘ Not a thing that helps us , ’ said the Captain at last . |
| 13 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 14 | What Ferguson had found and what the left just could not see was that when Hollywood really tried they produced a thing that ought not be pedantically analysed for ‘ the thing exists by itself for its moments on the screen , unquestionable ’ . |
| 15 | It may be that the state of affairs in which everyone ( as opposed to just some people ) is guided by such a maxim is an impossibility , or it may be that it is in some way a thing that no individual can wish for . |
| 16 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 17 | If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it . |
| 18 | This is an this is er another this is a good one for use in the field , it can be quite accurate it 's , it 's certainly a very easy one to use in the field cos all you need is a thing that looks a bit like a telescope about four inches long and what tha the principle it 's working on here is the fact that ref the refracted index of water changes as you dissolve salts in it . |
| 19 | " She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years . " |
| 20 | Okay so that 's that 's that 's a thing that would help . |
| 21 | For Marx , a commodity is : an object outside us , a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another . |
| 22 | A thing that worried me all through the deliberations … was this : supposing we made all the right recommendations and supposing the Government gave effect to them in legislation , how long would it be before the judges turned everything upside down ? |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | A thing that 's really about accents that if you say to somebody , What accent do n't you like ? |
| 25 | having your normal period was n't ever mentioned , I was just sent along to the lav , my sister came with me , she said ‘ you wear this ’ , and that was that — My mother never even mentioned it … you got married and you had children , I did n't know there was such a thing that you could not have them and it just went on and on . |
| 26 | And er this was a thing that would die out you know . |
| 27 | Is that a thing that comes with DOS Five ? |
| 28 | It is not a thing that determines language from without , and it therefore has a quite different status and function from that of truth in logocentric modes of thought . |
| 29 | ‘ This tourist is a thing that is out of place . |
| 30 | As well as finding coins you 'll come across poison apples , extra weapons and even a thing that turns the screen upside down ! |