Example sentences of "[num] thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if there is one thing that West London hotels particularly enjoy , it is making a fuss of Joe Jackson . |
| 2 | The one thing that does not seem to work in these situations is to use a large pop-up fished over the bed of baits . |
| 3 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 4 | There is , in glum reality , only one thing that will affect that : the knowledge that they will be sent back . |
| 5 | There is , in glum reality , only one thing that will affect that : the knowledge that they will be sent back . |
| 6 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 7 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 8 | If there is one thing that Japanese managers respond to , it is this sort of pressure . |
| 9 | One thing that has not changed with the passing millennia , however , is the rage of the man whose work is forged . |
| 10 | If the one thing that inner-city black children will go to school for is sport , use it to keep them there . |
| 11 | One thing that appears in his discussion of them is a preparedness to say that a ‘ simple ’ idea may not be absolutely , and in all contexts , simple . |
| 12 | What British people so often fail to understand is that the old inter-island divisions and prejudices that have always dogged Caribbean life are still present , and that a successful cricket team is the one thing that transcends this fragmentation . |
| 13 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 14 | This is the one thing that might make me lose my temper . |
| 15 | ‘ One thing that comes to mind is at kindergarten , though . |
| 16 | When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking . |
| 17 | SIR — I like to recall a wry comment on the television programme That Was The Week That Was towards the end of the Tories ' last long period in office during the early Sixties : ‘ There 's only one thing that will make the Conservatives popular again — and that is the next Labour government ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ One thing that is making it more expensive is getting souvenirs in the pro 's shop , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Too few people realise that the independence of the judges is the one thing that stands between John Citizen and the abuse of power by governments of whatever colour . |
| 20 | They do one thing that systematic nomenclature can not do — they make the subject user-friendly with a familiar ‘ feel ’ to it . |
| 21 | A good golf course is one thing that will bring visitors to Henley in larger numbers , and increase the demand for residential sites in the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 23 | And whatever else the decor was or the show was that night , whatever city we were all supposed to be in , one thing that was always the same and that Madame never got rid of was the ceiling . |
| 24 | One thing that made John happy when he went home for Christmas 1944 and the New Year was the presence in Johannesburg of his father 's new friend , Phyllis Hirsch . |
| 25 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 26 | The one thing that drew me to Elsie was her disability . |
| 27 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 28 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 29 | Recently , we were having a debate in the Lords and we got on to nationalization and I said that one thing that we need to nationalize in this country is the Treasury , but nobody has ever succeeded . |
| 30 | One thing that is certain is that there are thousands of waste producers ( and carriers ) who will have to start paying attention to what is in the skip . |