Example sentences of "thing [conj] [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ There are a lot of kids living under adverse conditions and the first thing that goes is their confidence . |
| 2 | One can , of course , go on writing scenarios and juggling the figures almost indefinitely ; the only sure thing that emerges is that stabilizing the climate by halving CO 2 emissions is going to demand a very great — and expensive — effort by the industrialized nations . |
| 3 | ‘ When we arrive at six , the first thing that happens is roll-call to make sure that everyone is here , ’ says Kendall . |
| 4 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 5 | The first thing that happens is an inversion of proportion , dramatic as Alice 's through the mirror : little things grow big , and big things disappear . |
| 6 | And the next thing that happens is an E sound . |
| 7 | The next thing that happens is it 's announced a masterpiece . |
| 8 | So the first thing that happens is data gets er , imported into the spreadsheet here , and second thing that could happen is er , the unwanted records get deleted . |
| 9 | And the big thing that happens is you you suddenly in the middle of differentiating start integrating or in the middle of an integrating start differentiating or you start doing taking you 've had enough of this so you start doing little short cuts like erm differentiating sine three X just as if it was sine X |
| 10 | Once you are afflicted with this inverted mentality in which every thing that exists is a pale shadow of some abstract general principle , expressed in a compound-noun sandwich , you are incapable of seeing or saying anything clearly . |
| 11 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 12 | So they wo n't do that , and of course it 's and the main thing that costs is the transport is every time you go on a bus you 're down to whatever it is two hundred pounds , and because of the two areas that we use , I mean we 're not gon na , I mean I do n't really know |
| 13 | Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say . |