Example sentences of "it be [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that thing outside , is n't it ? |
| 2 | They come up to meetings which erm , this goes on to say determine not to miss a single spiritual meal both private study , meeting attendance are urgent for all , there 's nothing new here brothers it 's all things that we 've heard before and this is why sometimes we can sort of nod off because we , we sort of think well I 've heard all this before , follow theocratic ways , procedures and policies not always easy to do , but it can be done , recognizing the organization that Jehovah is using keep awake by finding your place in God 's arrangement that is n't that little corner up there , by the way , we 're not talking about that one , but finding our place where we can work for Jehovah wholeheartedly do not quibble about assignments and arrangements I think we 're all guilty of that at some time are n't we ? |
| 3 | It 's such things that get to your heart . ’ |
| 4 | Right , erm , yes , it 's for adults I think , and it 's such things as Leonard Cheshire Homes , er , and I ca n't thing of any other , |
| 5 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , it 's this thing . |
| 7 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 8 | Oh it 's this thing ? |
| 9 | it 's this thing about this Lego piece |
| 10 | It 's not Carry it 's this thing we have to she tape conversations for speech therapy . |
| 11 | It 's this thing they 're doing in Norway . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's these things that do it . ’ |
| 13 | It 's these things that have gone for but Richard is very much a child |
| 14 | Well it 's those things that we would like to have decision making in these matters , and let's face it Norfolk County Council or the Highway Authority and Breckland are the people of the |
| 15 | It 's same thing , same man . |
| 16 | But that is the same it 's same thing though . |
| 17 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
| 18 | It 's another thing people tend to make crass comments about , or crass assumptions anyway . |
| 19 | It 's another thing that makes me wonder if the crazed geniuses who developed the first Intelloids were n't perpetrating some subtly painful joke on the human race . |
| 20 | It 's another thing to be a porter whose friend has A-I-D-S . |
| 21 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 23 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 24 | It 's another thing like the Poll Tax . |
| 25 | It is many things — the lethargy of the travel , and all that space . |
| 26 | It is all things to all men … and this is perhaps its number one axiom . |
| 27 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |
| 28 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
| 29 | ‘ It is another thing taking her family . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We were n't used to such targets , as prior to this it was such things as ball bearing plants , aircraft factories , Berlin etc . |