Example sentences of "[adj] thing [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see one of the other interesting things is that there is a essentially a tradition in this country that the Royal Family do not sue newspapers |
| 2 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 3 | The interesting thing is that Lord Leverhulme , who was so far ahead of his contemporaries in so many ways , missed two essential elements in the situation . |
| 4 | The interesting thing is that while the hard core fan is obviously going to buy a strip , we are selling more and more of them as fashion and leisure garments , and not just to kids . ’ |
| 5 | The interesting thing is that it does n't seem to influence our particular habit-forming er , take-up rates , and it does n't influence it because there is this lag period between starting smoking and developing lung cancer or developing heart disease or developing verofa ves vascular disease . |
| 6 | The interesting thing is that different people come up with very different ideas . |
| 7 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 8 | And one interesting thing is that as we integrate that system as we double the number of users our requirements the loading on our system may go up by a factor of four . |
| 9 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 10 | And then up at Gleneagles we have a pro-am celebrity golf tournament and that 's in conjunction with a dinner and a fashion show and yet again the interesting thing is that the Scottish P G A is actually going to run the golf tournament for us so that 's a great scoop . |
| 11 | And the most interesting thing is that er the consultees found it difficult to assess the extent of any additional cost arising from deregulation so you had a regulation you had a compliance cost assessment and you had employed people , consulted as to whether in fact that statutory instrument was gon na cost any more . |
| 12 | But the interesting thing is that , although he was certainly done with Christianity , erm and done with doctrinal religion , done with theism , done with all normally erm accepted Christian beliefs , he certainly was n't done with religion itself . |
| 13 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 14 | Another thing is that he himself might not be able to afford to send her the money , especially as he has a young family . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Another thing is that I 've started trying to play real tunes , real melodies — straight from the heart , really trying to commit myself . |
| 16 | But all the while I was led to believe by this statement another thing is that the day that made the made the appointment for me to appear , sorry are you reading ? |
| 17 | And erm another thing is that , we got the dress rehearsal the night before the show ! |
| 18 | The whole point of this thing is that , as I said in my speech , about trickle transfer is that people should mix as much as possible . |
| 19 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 20 | The funny thing is that people just have n't noticed yet . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 23 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 24 | The funny thing is that , although all these changes are for the better , many of them will seem like gimmicks when compared to the personal service a handful of cosmetic companies have always offered . |
| 25 | The funny thing is that you feel terrified to stay and I feel terrified to go . |
| 26 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 27 | The funny thing is that more kids will now want to buy the record from the stores where it is actually available . |
| 28 | The funny thing is that er if you look at the better dividend funds in the year of the crash , the dividends actually went up , cos dividend yields from companies were good in that year , so people would n't have lost out , their income would have been quite stable . |
| 29 | ( The funny thing is that Jack 's father never knew when his birthday was either . |
| 30 | the funny thing is that if if you know that what you 've got on your head is something acrylic , then you ca n't feel all that good about yourself . |