Example sentences of "[adj] thing was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funny thing was that Uncle George had made no remark about the length of time she 'd been away . |
| 2 | The funny thing was that in a way the old fart was right . |
| 3 | The funny thing was that on the day of the theft a man who often used to come and see us , and was generally regarded as a friend of the house , had been and invited the entire family Zina , myself , and both our son and daughter somewhere miles out of town to go and have a barbecue . |
| 4 | The funny thing was that Lizzy seemed glad to be going . |
| 5 | Yeah but the the funny thing was that if we had n't |
| 6 | Well the funny thing was that er the local Labour party n did n't have did n't have a youth er a youth section . |
| 7 | The trouble was that neither of them was entirely certain he was right , and the funny thing was that people who were n't entirety certain they were right always argued much louder than other people , as if the main person they were trying to convince was themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 9 | But the amazing thing was that , just after we 'd recorded our bit for the Gardeners ' World programmed , I spotted a couple of butterflies fluttering around the garden . |
| 10 | The incredible thing was that she guessed he had no idea of the impact he made , or simply did n't care . |
| 11 | And the dazzling thing was that quite a few made a beeline for a lady who co , could at least give thirty years ! |
| 12 | The puzzling thing was that if the intensity of the light was reduced , the number of particles emitted diminished , but the speed with which each particle was emitted remained the same . |
| 13 | ‘ The only puzzling thing was that he kept muttering , ‘ There were only thirty-one , there were only thirty-one ’ . ’ |
| 14 | The most frightening thing was that I thought it would never stop . |
| 15 | The irritating thing was that he seemed to be unaware of the beneficial effects of AZT , or the creative potential of AIDS sufferers . |
| 16 | The really astonishing thing was that Walter Schellenberg did n't consider himself a Nazi , looked on the Third Reich as a sorry charade , its main protagonists actors of a very low order indeed . |
| 17 | The encouraging thing was that all the people he had sentenced were , so far at any rate , in good health . |
| 18 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 19 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 20 | The good thing was that Vic kept running so we did n't miss any of it . |
| 21 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 22 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 23 | The curious thing was that the lawyers , dentists , opticians , salesmen and accountants he knew did n't seem to do much work . |
| 24 | But the curious thing was that the idea had somehow and much against his will taken root in his consciousness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 27 | ‘ The great thing was that there was hardly any money in contemporary art in those days . |
| 28 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 29 | The important thing was that we were closer to the lead . |
| 30 | In the afternoon I had thought that the only important thing was that I was alive , now I wished that I was dead . |