Example sentences of "thing [be] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | One good thing is that we communicate with each other . |
| 3 | There is n't , you know , there is n't one thing is that we need to , with the short-term programmes we did n't do it work out the financial we need to go one stage further identify where the labour is |
| 4 | The only important thing is that we play as a team and that we win . |
| 5 | The other thing is that he asked for his family . |
| 6 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 7 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 8 | The only curious thing was that I found in my room a handbill from a Frenchman trying to solicit backers to export parchment to France and import wine into England . |
| 9 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 10 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |