Example sentences of "thing that [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 32 | OK , on paper it all sounds like nausea-inducing stuff , the kind of thing that would cause any self-respecting Popkid to pack up his T-shirts and join the next peace convoy out of town . |
| 33 | You did n't know one thing that would find me . ’ |
| 34 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 35 | Well that was another thing , one of the new first-aiders we 've got , erm did n't know where the accident book was and I thought was quite an important thing that would probably have been brought up |
| 36 | Okay so that 's that 's that 's a thing that would help . |
| 37 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 38 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 39 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing that would influence you , of course , ’ says Caroline , ‘ but the prospects would be quite good . ’ |
| 40 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 41 | I suppose it depends on the family but trying to envisage an average family , on thing that would immediately come to mind erm is probably security . |
| 42 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 43 | And er this was a thing that would die out you know . |
| 44 | It was just the sort of thing that would amuse a man like that . |
| 45 | Isabel had scarcely felt the fiery rush of blood to her cheeks , the quick involuntary swelling of her flesh , before fitzAlan wrenched his hand away , transferring the reins from the other as if that was the only thing that would prevent him from touching her again . |
| 46 | The only thing that would be worse than uncertainty would be to be given duff information . |
| 47 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 48 | He just reads their mail without them knowing it and the thing that would really appeal to him is that the companies he sets his sights on are actually paying him for delivering it ! ’ |
| 49 | The thing that would most improve communication here is … |
| 50 | The thing that would most improve communication here is |
| 51 | Then would having a good head for numbers be the sort of thing that would individuate them at the level of their soul ? |
| 52 | So , so being desirous of the truth would be the sort of thing that would |
| 53 | He said it was the only thing that would get him through it . ’ |
| 54 | The only thing that would help would be if we could finish off this Leila business . ’ |
| 55 | This means that the light , instead of being granted an unrestricted passage to the photocells , has to pass through a forest of connecting wires , pre-sumably suffering at least some attenuation and distortion ( actually probably not much but , still , it is the principle of the thing that would offend any tidy-minded engineer ! ) . |
| 56 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 57 | The only thing that would save him would be work abroad . |
| 58 | The only thing that would have made it better was if it was in 3-D . ’ |
| 59 | In our last meeting John the need to do a little thing that would the district but I felt that because of the time pushing that wha , what 's his name has said about the erm the River |
| 60 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |