Example sentences of "thing [prep] [adj] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the interesting things about this is that they 've worked out , in order to erm achieve our sales forecast , erm the impact of recruitment for each branch is that we need a net growth in branch of one plus one for every er on every month . |
| 2 | ‘ In East Hampshire the one thing for certain is that Michael Mates will be returned , although with a much reduced majority . |
| 3 | One thing for certain is that selling abroad is ‘ different ’ . |
| 4 | The only good thing , the only good thing about La the only good thing about Labour is that they would have brought back student grants so if I ever , if I ever do go to university then I 'll get lots of money . |
| 5 | The third thing about that is that it represents us saying continuum . |
| 6 | I do n't mind whether I 'm English or Irish , but the thing about this is that as I was there till I was about fifteen or sixteen , it rubbed off on me a lot the whole atmosphere of Ireland . |
| 7 | So the important thing about this is that you can not , you can not just say modern equals bad , and trad is good because you must in order to argue Paul examine the |
| 8 | Okay well the only thing about this is and we 're going to send this to you and er you take it out and get Rita 's address . |
| 9 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 10 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 11 | And I think the most disgusting thing of all is that Alan Sillitoe does n't show that he 's disgusted by his young man . |
| 12 | The saddest thing of all is that it is hard to see how a different outcome was ever possible . |
| 13 | The worst thing of all was that no one was talking . |
| 14 | At Christmas we went around houses singing carols but the best thing of all was when on Christmas eve we went to the local old peoples home to sing carols . |