Example sentences of "[adj] thing that [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One further thing that will help you to be a successful prescriber ; the more you enjoy it the easier it will be . |
| 2 | This is the most exciting thing that can happen in a school corridor , short of giraffes fighting . |
| 3 | And er another thing that used to happen though , if anything happened to that shaft , you see ? |
| 4 | So y you see there 's another s strange funny thing that can happen you see . |
| 5 | But you must think my displeasure the heaviest thing that can befall you . |
| 6 | So the first thing that happens is data gets er , imported into the spreadsheet here , and second thing that could happen is er , the unwanted records get deleted . |
| 7 | The nearly worst thing that could happen would be her father coming back . |
| 8 | If I do this what is the worst thing that could happen to me ? |
| 9 | JEWKES : Maybe I am , for to rob him of yourself would be the worst thing that could happen to him . |
| 10 | Perhaps that was the worst thing that could happen to a human being . |
| 11 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
| 12 | And last night , when he had ingested an almond — the absolutely worst thing that could happen to him — something good had happened . |
| 13 | At a time when the world is struggling to get out of recession , it is just about the worst thing that could happen . |
| 14 | The worst thing that could have happened was … nothing . ’ |
| 15 | Hatch said it : Jack Stone was the worst thing that could have happened to Chrissie . ’ |
| 16 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 17 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 18 | But it is not the worst thing that can happen . |
| 19 | It 's sometimes worth asking that nagging little voice what is really the worst thing that can happen now ? |
| 20 | Remind yourself that blushing is not the worst thing that can happen to you . |
| 21 | That is the worst thing that can happen to a human being . |
| 22 | The worst thing that can happen — |
| 23 | What is the worst thing that can happen when organising a tour ? |
| 24 | The worst thing that can happen is for the boat to become totally inverted and here you need to slide the daggerboard quickly out before it drops through the hull . |
| 25 | Like the other parties , it knows full well that extremism is the worst thing that can happen to a good cause . |
| 26 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
| 27 | Then , when everything fell apart so quickly , that scared me even more , because failing at something like that is just about the most frightening thing that can happen to you . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Simon and Mr Brown marvelled that they had done the run without a single hitch remarkable considering that in the two weeks before , every major thing that could have gone wrong had done so . |
| 29 | Of course , there may be those who would argue that the entrenchment of the middle ground in power would be a good thing that would lead to moderate government and stable policies , but let them not argue that it would also be fair or would give the majority of people what they wanted of government . |
| 30 | Just one more thing that may have been mentioned yesterday when Jess was going through the legal and underwriting session , this applies to both Covermaster and living assurance . |