Example sentences of "the [adj] thing be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unbelievable thing is that it 's easy . |
| 2 | The striking thing was that like the golden ball Mungo had found at the barrow , these were not of modern design . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The odd thing is that the resulting book will have precisely the opposite effect on most readers . |
| 5 | The odd thing is that the larval eels take around a year and a half to make the passage . |
| 6 | The odd thing was that he considered life to be at its quietest in the midst of the most thunderous , ear-splitting waves . |
| 7 | The odd thing was that Carol felt quite safe on it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The strange thing is that these bites are not difficult to hit once you have detected them . |
| 15 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 16 | The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) . |
| 17 | The strange thing is that not all amateur operators seem to understand this and only about half the country 's licensed amateurs are members of the RSGB . |
| 18 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
| 19 | ‘ The strange thing is that outside the camp , many of the torturers led normal lives , ’ Dr Haritos-Fatouros says . |
| 20 | ‘ No , the strange thing is that I was the only applicant . |
| 21 | But the strange thing is that , since then , Sykes and Morris have fallen out . |
| 22 | As an astute contemporary observed , " the strange thing is that de Gaulle did not , at any time , suggest that he could save [ the French people ] from [ war ] ; the suggestion was rather that if war was to come … it would be better for France if he were in charge " . |
| 23 | I mean what the strange thing is that I was reading about |
| 24 | The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent . |
| 25 | The strange thing was that he derived no real enjoyment from smoking . |
| 26 | The strange thing was that it did not occur to her then to follow the Way Out signs , leave the station and go out into the street where a taxi could be found . |
| 27 | The strange thing was that she knew it was Ernest 's bell , the bell she had tactfully told him would be unsuitable for the kind of school he had in mind . |
| 28 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 29 | He says : ‘ They were rare even in Binks ’ day , but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians . |
| 30 | The awful thing is that I had a chance to meet him . |