Example sentences of "thing that [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 I am short-sighted , and I 'm sure that when war breaks out , the first thing that 'll happen is that my glasses will break .
2 The only thing that 'll touch it is an arc-welder — and it 's pretty conductive stuff too .
3 This is the one thing that might make me lose my temper .
4 First , context suggests the sort of thing that might be said ( the crash was on a border , so the question of which side of the border something will happen on is appropriate ) .
5 This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention .
6 There was one thing that might save the mare , and that was only a 10,000 to I chance .
7 ‘ The only thing that might make them move after three years here is Italy .
8 So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) .
9 He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander .
10 ‘ One thing that might interest you , last year our manager jumped from that bridge and broke his neck … ’
11 Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in .
12 One thing that might be relevant to this is the fact that er one study came up with two different types of tag question , they call the two different tabs , aka tag question Modal tags and Effective tags .
13 Er a specific on only thing that might have been I think was really , erm the erm the concern that some people expect erm are for rural areas , whether there was going t there were going to be con whether things were going to be spread thinner on the ground in rural areas , particularly sort of transport costs , and of course erm there 's one , but nevertheless , the concern that that would be underlying that and the erm the erm the the rural community
14 As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use .
15 I mean , there 's a thing that might be very prevalent with bullying , you know why do people get bullied
16 As you say it 's the sort of thing that might appeal to people because then they can go and look at their poster .
17 essentially we work with the same material , the only thing that might change is the part where I slide withg my hands down a rope .
18 The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly .
19 I mean the one little thing that might be nice , it might be er , a romantic weekend , er a romantic day in Paris
20 Unless you name drop in the conversation , that 's the only thing that might be a bit revealing .
21 The first thing that may be noted is that the contrast between different parts of Fig. 21.18 provides immediate evidence for marked organization of the structures ( the point that was illustrated in the case of a wake by Fig. 21.9 ) .
22 Erm one thing that may hel will help is a compliment slip or a letter heading if we have to lift a logo it 's difficult from a photocopy
23 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 .
24 The only other thing that may be an answer to the question is erm I I know it seems an about face but are we gon na say that er the other two sergeants that are now managers become A L O's and use them in that capacity and train 'em up .
25 That thing that ca n't possibly exist .
26 Tha that 's one thing that ca n't be taken into consideration .
27 What Ferguson had found and what the left just could not see was that when Hollywood really tried they produced a thing that ought not be pedantically analysed for ‘ the thing exists by itself for its moments on the screen , unquestionable ’ .
28 Well , that sounds as if it 's the sort of thing that ought to happen .
29 When I ask the fat ladies at the drop-in centre what is the one thing that would do most to improve the estate they say ‘ get rid of the kids ’ and they are only half joking .
30 The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites .
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