Example sentences of "the [adj -est] thing that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye oh , this was the greatest thing the greatest thing that could have happened to the people . |
| 2 | But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you . |
| 3 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 4 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 5 | But it is not the worst thing that can happen . |
| 6 | It 's sometimes worth asking that nagging little voice what is really the worst thing that can happen now ? |
| 7 | Remind yourself that blushing is not the worst thing that can happen to you . |
| 8 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 9 | The worst thing that can happen — |
| 10 | What is the worst thing that can happen when organising a tour ? |
| 11 | The worst thing that can happen is for the boat to become totally inverted and here you need to slide the daggerboard quickly out before it drops through the hull . |
| 12 | Like the other parties , it knows full well that extremism is the worst thing that can happen to a good cause . |
| 13 | The worst thing that could have happened was … nothing . ’ |
| 14 | If I do this what is the worst thing that could happen to me ? |
| 15 | Hatch said it : Jack Stone was the worst thing that could have happened to Chrissie . ’ |
| 16 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 17 | JEWKES : Maybe I am , for to rob him of yourself would be the worst thing that could happen to him . |
| 18 | Perhaps that was the worst thing that could happen to a human being . |
| 19 | Would not the worst thing that could possibly happen for any of our constituents or patients be for the Labour party to come to power and abolish competitive tendering ? |
| 20 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 21 | At a time when the world is struggling to get out of recession , it is just about the worst thing that could happen . |
| 22 | The simplest thing that can go wrong is the failure of one mechanism such as a pump , valve or thermostat . |
| 23 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 24 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 25 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 26 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 27 | It was the best thing that could have happened to him — he was out of the way of everybody . |
| 28 | ‘ Andy , that 's the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ ANDY THAT 'S the best thing that could have happened to you . ’ |
| 30 | With hindsight , it was probably the best thing that could have happened to him , otherwise he would no doubt have ended up as a Bomber Pilot , and no-one knows better than I what a dead-end occupation that was . |