Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the one thing that makes rock more than simply an industry , the one thing that transcends the commodity relation , is fidelity , the idea of a relationship . |
| 2 | And , of course , in no time at all , we were talking about the one thing that obsessed every one of us , cancer . |
| 3 | It 's about the one thing a year he does do and crows about . |
| 4 | Lawton died in agony of the one thing he had been so afraid of ; died in an agony that was self-inflicted . |
| 5 | Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition . |
| 6 | True , without error , certain and most true ; that which is above is as that which is below , and that which is below is as that which is above , for performing the miracles of the One Thing ; and as all things were from One , by the mediation of One , so all things arose from this One Thing by adaptation ; the father of it is the Sun , the mother of it is the Moon ; the wind carries it in its belly ; the nurse thereof is the Earth . |
| 7 | But on a serious note , if we go along this line of the one thing , to me then , of getting what we need , we have gas , we have electric , the one thing we do need , nobody could survive without , is water , Congress I ask you to support this m this motion . |
| 8 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 9 | I told them all I knew except the one thing the great cardinal wanted . ’ |
| 10 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 11 | A union of Baptists or of Methodists could be based on shared theological foundations ; a union of Nonconformists could only be based on the one thing they shared , their nonconforming status as English Protestant Christians outside the established church of the land . |
| 12 | After some years of struggling anxiously with the knotty complexities of Catholic devotion before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council , I found The Cloud of Unknowing 's stark insistence on the one thing necessary deeply liberating and felt that a weight had fallen from my shoulders . |
| 13 | After all , I do n't see why Jennifer should miss out on the one thing she 's actually looking forward to just because of him . ’ |
| 14 | Now the sons , dominated by their love for and estimation of the primal father could maintain the altruism and cooperativeness of their way of life because of their guilt regarding the one thing that had always threatened that cooperation — their lust . |
| 15 | He 's no match for you , and I wo n't have him abused for being so good at the one thing he does well . |