Example sentences of "thing [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 2 | In all this sharp distinguishing , in all this enemy thing that Amis has , there are elements of anxiety , and of misrepresentation . |
| 3 | Your natural ability is the thing that should emerge , and if you have been well coached the coaching wo n't show . |
| 4 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 5 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 6 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 7 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 8 | The thing that I 'd like to do and that I really wish I could do is give you a job here but Personnel have said I 'm already fully staffed . ’ |
| 9 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 10 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 11 | ‘ And there is a thing that this wild part is very good for . |
| 12 | It is a contagious thing that laugh , and healing too . |
| 13 | The only thing that ‘ rang bells ’ for him was his own consciousness — Djwa 's ‘ experience ’ — and most of all the inner experiences which had always dominated his vision — his ‘ inner landscape ’ . |
| 14 | The last thing that a representational theorist really wants to have to explain is the global nature of thinking ; and I suppose we can regard Fodor 's pessimism as an implicit kind of owning up to this . |
| 15 | I am afraid I am cynical enough to believe this is just another round of a giant game of poker , where the only thing that will matter in the end will be the size of the cheque . |
| 16 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 17 | It is also a thing that even the most experienced reviewer can not always offer . |
| 18 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 19 | Accusations of cynical pension-planning inevitably follow , as do questions about whether this is the sort of thing that grown men should be up to . |
| 20 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 21 | Deep down , he is convinced that he is the best thing that has happened to his country since the invention of goulash . |
| 22 | Copyright : ADAGP , Paris/DACS , London , 1989 The first thing that I feel when I look at Miro 's Painting is a sense of sublime calm . |
| 23 | But Sir David said yesterday : ‘ We 've always had doubts about this policy , and the thing that now confirms our doubts is that it has n't worked . ’ |
| 24 | And if there is one thing that West London hotels particularly enjoy , it is making a fuss of Joe Jackson . |
| 25 | One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse . |
| 26 | He said ‘ you would thing that people were used to elephants , but they love them and would come out and be blessed by her . |
| 27 | The first thing that struck the other dons who lived in the Castle was his oddness . |
| 28 | This last category is the thing that started , at least to the naked eye , in Berkeley , California about 1964 , and swept around the world reaching its zenith about 1969–70 — just five years flat . |
| 29 | It was the thing that started in Berkeley . |
| 30 | A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played . |