Example sentences of "thing [is] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I du n no what this thing 's for I 'm sure .
2 But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well .
3 An' like the worst thing is that y' know the people who are like supposed to represent the people on our estate , y' know the Daily Mirror an' The Sun , an ITV an' the Unions , what are they tellin' people to do ?
4 The main thing is that it needs to look like you !
5 The thing is that it costs 40 lira to go up now , but if he had waited just one hour more , till the 11 a.m. departure , he would have had to pay only two lira .
6 The second thing is that there are an awful lot of them .
7 But the important thing is that there is nothing at Felbrigg or Nostell — or elsewhere in National Trust houses — which closely resembles the saloon ( or the drawing room ) at Uppark : these rooms were unique and we need them back .
8 The important thing is that the Thirty Year Rule is in force and that we can respond to developing perceptions of our times . ’
9 ‘ The really worrying thing is that higher education is being regarded as a commodity for sale rather than something that we should invest in .
10 ‘ But one thing is that we have a meeting at 1pm at Nelson 's cottage .
11 ‘ The silly thing is that it was n't painful , not at all .
12 The essential thing is that you should do the homework as thoroughly as you can . ’
13 The curious thing is that Lewis , though so very widely read in other areas , had read almost no works of biblical scholarship .
14 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 .
15 He writes , ‘ We have seen some remarkable changes in some of the young people who come to our house , the main thing is that we are available , have time and share what we have , which is probably not very much .
16 The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’
17 The most important thing is that next season Manchester City are in the First Division . ’
18 These things are expensive but the crucial thing is that both my name and the name of the RCN has been cleared . ’
19 The thing is that , when you 're not in touch with your body , you 're not in touch with the earth , with our reasons for being here .
20 ( The sad thing is that the rector wrote an apologetic reply . )
21 The most perplexing thing is that the evidence shows that many bids are not a good idea .
22 The main thing is that I can do it through official channels .
23 The great thing is that everybody has been to the cinema , and many have had a strange experience there . ’
24 The curious thing is that though the facts are the same as they were in the Fifties and the risks are higher , the level of anxiety about them has markedly fallen .
25 The other strange thing is that they look happy all the time .
26 The silly thing is that the labels only matter to you if you do know the rules yourself .
27 The main thing is that we have now completed over forty films .
28 ‘ The thing is that most of us were good friends , many of us still are .
29 The funny thing is that people just have n't noticed yet .
30 And yet the problems reason hopes to resolve will not go away and we are little wiser in that respect than when Pascal wrote so perceptively : ‘ Man is neither angel nor brute , and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute . ’
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