Example sentences of "the thing [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think one of the things is that Mrs Thatcher 's not there any more . . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The thing is that most of us were good friends , many of us still are . |
| 6 | Smiths fan Dave Haslam , Stockport : ‘ The thing is that The Smiths are the only human band in England . |
| 7 | The thing is that it 's obviously genuine sentiment and that 's why I like The Smiths . |
| 8 | ‘ The thing is that no-one else completely realises whatever vision you have — you know , everything being intact the way you visualised it . |
| 9 | The thing is that we can design a string , try it out and decide we like it , but Norman can actually take pictures of that sound so we can file it , compare it with the results from other strings and start to understand why we like that particular one . |
| 10 | The thing is that you ca n't always judge your own work , this is the value of working together . |
| 11 | The thing is that , in a day or two , the Tollemarche Advent will wake up to the fact that you wrote it . |
| 12 | ‘ The thing is that killing got to be a habit with Mario ’ , adds his friend Juan . |
| 13 | And the thing is that when of the , I have n't seen anywhere any kind of poll system , you know , I think it 's a , I 've always thought it outrageous as a women actually , that women have had to pay for toilets , and erm , I mean if we , you know , if we , we might , I mean , I , I would be in favour of a system where , you know , you , say a local Council issues a pass , which you pay for , have differential rates , but it 's like people paying up front for that toilet service . |
| 14 | The thing is that I I can do revamp it on computer . |
| 15 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 16 | The thing is that I should so like to be the first to know , officially … ’ |
| 17 | Yes well the thing is that the erm we feel |
| 18 | The thing is that because the real stories just happen , they do n't always tell you very much . |
| 19 | Er so er I mean the , the thing is that they , they , they a are in a position where they can improve their profits by er sectoring the operation . |
| 20 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 21 | The thing is that it , in this office we , we tend to pick 'em up between Sylvia and myself really |
| 22 | The thing is that many people are anti-Belfry , but we should n't be too thin-skinned because nowadays everything gets criticised . |
| 23 | J.S. Well , the thing is that my work moves right across that because I work with what is seen as ‘ negative ’ imagery . |
| 24 | But the thing is that it seems that we 're a cultural the way the system is set up |
| 25 | Erm , well the thing is that I still erm , in the process of doing research and reading and gathering a |
| 26 | Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone . |
| 27 | Well the thing is that you know erm somebody 's got no hair they think , a lot of this the problem revolve round the baldness , and er they have n't come to term with it . |
| 28 | I don' think er that women mind at all , I do n't think that that people in general really take that much notice of it , I mean I personally er have no objection or would not try and dissuade these gentlemen from wearing these things , but I personally would never wear one , and one of the reasons I would never wear one is apart from maybe two cases there you can always tell , and I think the thing is that when I would feel very uncomfortable walking down the street and everyo I 'd feel that everyone was there going wig , wig and the other thing is , there 's a young lady at the back there made a very valid point , er |
| 29 | But the thing is that there 's time limits imposed on the building application , so that time limit is therefore transferred to us . |
| 30 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |