Example sentences of "[art] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 2 | Your natural ability is the thing that should emerge , and if you have been well coached the coaching wo n't show . |
| 3 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 4 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 5 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 6 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 7 | This last category is the thing that started , at least to the naked eye , in Berkeley , California about 1964 , and swept around the world reaching its zenith about 1969–70 — just five years flat . |
| 8 | It was the thing that started in Berkeley . |
| 9 | because it is the creation of wealth that creates employment , not in the thing that is creating the wealth but in other things . |
| 10 | The thing that is really appealing about In England Now is that self-important , overbearing medical people are still aghast at the idea of a major journal of international repute devoting space to humour . |
| 11 | The thing that attracted me was that it was n't your average plonk , plonk , three cord amateur musician . |
| 12 | I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that . |
| 13 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 14 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 15 | I seem to be able to do the thing that she ca n't do ; that Pat ca n't do ; that the women she works with ca n't do : control my weight , my body , my self . |
| 16 | So the guru asked him : ‘ What is the thing that is dearest to you ? ’ |
| 17 | I looked at it vaguely and then with more attention , remembering the thing that had sung past my ear . |
| 18 | ‘ But the thing that breaks my heart ’ , the curator continued , ‘ is that there were books on board and , of course , the sea 's only left indecipherable leather spines . … |
| 19 | The thing that stirs us more than anything is war in defence of our nation . |
| 20 | The thing that sustains it so well , if you do n't mind my saying , is its radio sense of priorities : clear questions ; answers to the point ; any space between probed briskly . |
| 21 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 22 | Of course the thing really worth doing is the thing that is too difficult — ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You know , if you read the collected letters of any writer — if you read her biography — you will always get a sense that there 's something missing , something biographers do n't have access to , the real thing , the crucial thing , the thing that really mattered to the poet herself . |
| 24 | Visiting the ruins of Tula in Mexico , Mr Palomar is torn between interpretation and non-interpretation , between the explanations of his knowledgeable friend , who transforms each mysterious stone into ‘ a cosmic tale , an allegory , a moral reflection ’ , and the attitude of the teacher with his little party of schoolchildren who resolutely refuses to speculate on meaning , preferring simply to show his pupils the thing that is there . |
| 25 | But in the final analysis , the thing that used to make me happy was making me miserable , so I just had to get out . ’ |
| 26 | But the thing that always concerns me about these kind of decisions under those kind of circumstances is that it might be a temporary depression : in other words a suicide wish , and this is a terrifically difficult issue that is bantered about a lot under these kind of circumstances , and normally , if someone says ‘ Kill me , ’ you figure they 're crazy . |
| 27 | It became clear that my enemy in all this business , the thing that could promote my own humiliation , was the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 28 | They spoke of ‘ an increasing displacement of the traditional curriculum in favour of new and artificial subjects ’ ; and they concluded that instead of such ‘ infantilizing ’ nonsense , ‘ the difficult subjects of the traditional curriculum are … the thing that is required if a child is to obtain either the competence necessary for a successful adult life , or the wider understanding and enriched experience which are the greatest benefits of education ’ . |
| 29 | He expressed his feelings so many times in the same way that when he could not see me I would find myself mouthing the words with him : ‘ The thing that worries me is bandits and deep sand . ’ |
| 30 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |