Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
| 2 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 3 | Meeting Arnold Palmer has been the greatest thing that has happened to me . |
| 4 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 5 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 6 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 7 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 8 | If I do n't pay cash and er been the best thing I ever done and its been sufficient , you know what I mean and er all the people , there ai n't nobody in this town that I ai n't worked for , sometime or other . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 11 | He declared that the ANC and its allies wanted " peace and democracy " and that " if the government … responds in the same spirit , our action will have been the best thing that could have happened to the negotiations process " . |
| 12 | But they overlook one vital fact — it would have been the simplest thing in the world for the ICC to announce the ball was changed under Law 5 because it had gone out of shape — if that had been true . |
| 13 | That had been the wrong thing too . |
| 14 | That had been the wrong thing to say . |
| 15 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world take me into another room and tell me they actually liked what Allison was doing , but they did n't . ’ |
| 16 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings . |
| 17 | It is quite a normal procedure , and for two mothers who had quite easy births , having these stitches had been the worst thing about it . |
| 18 | She could n't even ignore him , which would have been the sensible thing to do ; every time he spoke she found herself lashing back . |
| 19 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 20 | In fact it had always been the last thing on his mind . |
| 21 | Beach are this week 's archetypal , one-syllable hopeful indie band , a four-song EP is the correct thing for them to be releasing , and titles like ‘ Burn ’ and ‘ Seeing ’ are the correct things to be on it , each one laced with all the right expansive guitar and aptly sweet and cottony ( female ) vocal . |
| 22 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 23 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 24 | Feet are the real thing . |
| 25 | They are the real thing and have all the hallmarks that have made PRS one of the world 's top-rated manufacturers . |
| 26 | Easton Press editions are the real thing . |
| 27 | Major the Couldn't-Care-Less , Major the Can't-Do-A-Thing-About-It and Major the Can't-Believe-A-Word-He-Says … they are the real thing . |
| 28 | According to Brentano , mental phenomena are the only things we perceive , in the strict sense of the word ‘ perceive ’ . |
| 29 | Since the only things that psychologists can measure are stimuli and responses , these are the only things they can include in their theories . |
| 30 | For memories are the only things I can ever have of you now , my sweet , lovely girl … |