Example sentences of "thing [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever actual technique we use for taking the sample the key thing is that everyone should be ‘ on the list ’ in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ The important thing is that everyone has a blinding time , ’ says Dermot with the quiet confidence of a promoter who never promises attractions he ca n't deliver . |
| 3 | ‘ The thing is that no-one else completely realises whatever vision you have — you know , everything being intact the way you visualised it . |
| 4 | The remarkable thing is that one gets exactly the same kind of fringes if one replaces the source of light by a source of particles such as electrons with a definite speed ( this means that the corresponding waves have a definite length ) . |
| 5 | The awful thing is that one almost agrees . |
| 6 | The thing is that what we need and what 's missing from this is in fact the balance that was available at the time we started this period . |
| 7 | No no and we even if we were offered them we would n't take them because the logic of the thing is that what we 're trying to show is a medieval house as it looked when it was nearly new . |
| 8 | Right , now the other thing is that what Jim 's doing which is that programme , how is that coming along ? |
| 9 | ‘ But one thing is that we have a meeting at 1pm at Nelson 's cottage . |
| 10 | He writes , ‘ We have seen some remarkable changes in some of the young people who come to our house , the main thing is that we are available , have time and share what we have , which is probably not very much . |
| 11 | The main thing is that we have now completed over forty films . |
| 12 | ‘ The saddest thing is that we 've been persuaded that true travellers know how to haggle . |
| 13 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 14 | The important thing is that we can influence it through aerobic exercise . |
| 15 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 16 | The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one . |
| 17 | ‘ But the positive thing is that we did win our last home game and it was a big one . |
| 18 | ‘ The fundamental thing is that we have come away from true asset finance , ’ said Tony Foley , director of Leaseplan , which has a portfolio of £60m in asset finance plus a further £150m in vehicle leasing . |
| 19 | On the other hand Mr Ernest Saunders , Chief Executive of Guinness , claimed that : ‘ The important thing is that we are going to create a major new international brands business in Britain — the first since Beecham 's in the 1950s ’ . |
| 20 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 21 | The main thing is that we have a comprehensive plan , now and for the future . |
| 22 | ‘ The worst thing is that we get no information about what is going on ’ , he says . |
| 23 | I think the important thing is that we do establish with the other professionals within the school a real understanding about what we are trying to achieve , an agreement and , as far as possible , a sharing of values between us as to what we are trying to achieve with these youngsters . |
| 24 | You may agree or disagree with these decisions ; the important thing is that we learn to appreciate the influence that the grammatical system of a language has on the way events are presented in that language . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't realize , ’ says Myra , Michael 's wife , from the far end of the sofa , ‘ the fantastic thing is that we went through all this scene twenty minutes ago , in the car on the way here . |
| 26 | ‘ The important thing is that we are learning a new language . |
| 27 | ’ The main thing is that we have no choice . |
| 28 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 29 | The fascinating thing is that we can construct a complete family tree of all the globin genes , and even put dates on all the divergence points ( delta and beta globin parted company , for example , about 40 million years ago ; epsilon and gamma globins 100 million years ago ) . |
| 30 | The crucial thing is that we are talking about fees charged by the homes , not about reasonable costs . |