Example sentences of "odd thing [be] that " in BNC.

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1 The odd thing is that the earliest models — unstreamlined and primitive ( thermostats were n't available until the 20s ) — seem just the thing you 'd see in today 's trendy kitchen .
2 The odd thing is that the resulting book will have precisely the opposite effect on most readers .
3 The odd thing is that the larval eels take around a year and a half to make the passage .
4 ‘ The only odd thing is that according to the military history , the place had been overrun by American First Army , either the 3rd or 9th Division , I ca n't quite make out their boundary line , nearly two weeks before . ’
5 The odd thing was that he considered life to be at its quietest in the midst of the most thunderous , ear-splitting waves .
6 The odd thing was that Carol felt quite safe on it .
7 The odd thing was that , after he had entered the paint shop , he had felt as if a heavy wave of sadness had suddenly been lifted from out of him .
8 But the odd thing was that it did n't fill me with the slightest sense of humility or feelings about the separateness and ‘ otherness ’ of nature , but with sheer , shouting joy at sharing that old world on a new morning with my wild Scots kinfolk .
9 She saw then that saying this had been unpardonable , but the odd thing was that he did pardon her , and laughed , and quietly fished some of the soggy pills out of the sink in case he fancied one later after all .
10 Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship .
11 The odd thing was that once on reciprocal we should have passed near the Koln area , with its attendant flak and searchlights , but not a sign .
12 And the navigator replied in his normal Brummie voice : " Oh no , he is in the aircraft over there , " and the odd thing was that the flak left us and clobbered an aircraft near us , It was the dead-ringer of God 's voice that unnerved me , I put a stop to this impersonation of the Lord and , sadly .
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