Example sentences of "[is] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still it was appreciated and that s the main thing . |
| 2 | And that is the best thing I ever heard . ’ |
| 3 | Deep down , he is convinced that he is the best thing that has happened to his country since the invention of goulash . |
| 4 | If only we realised in time , we would n't waste our lives on trash. why is the best thing in the world tied to the least lasting ? |
| 5 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 6 | ‘ Budyko thinks climate change is the best thing since sliced bread , ’ said a US scientist at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva in 1989 in a conversation with the author . |
| 7 | Often this is the best thing for the building . |
| 8 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 9 | The new mother is often terrified of making a mistake but she does not really know what is the best thing to do . |
| 10 | If the lurcher catches a rabbit on the feeding grounds it will almost invariably scream — and this is the best thing to happen . |
| 11 | Her voice is the best thing about tonight , and she is n't their usual singer . |
| 12 | THIS IS the best thing he 's done since he binned the golf shoes and invented frothy coffee . |
| 13 | ‘ This is the best thing that could happen here , ’ says Alex Lowes , organiser of the Southampton weekenders and a regular at Flying 's latest Saturday night . |
| 14 | ‘ Then fresh air and exercise is the best thing for it . |
| 15 | The all-fours press-up is the best thing for all-round upper body toning . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 17 | The result , though , is the best thing he has done : it is nervy , poetic , loopy and very personal . |
| 18 | But the cynical should be advised ; this is the best thing Weller has done since he binned those awful black-and-white golf shoes and invented frothy coffee . |
| 19 | Think through your decision carefully before going to be tested and do n't be pressurised into having a test unless you have had enough time to decide whether it is the best thing for you . |
| 20 | Kathy : Scott is the best thing that ever happened to us . |
| 21 | As far as we believe it is the best thing for the school . ’ |
| 22 | It is a suitably simple affair , with just two sculpted capitals of indeterminate subject and only one sculpted arch or voussure out of the four ; the tympanum is the best thing , a Christ in Majesty decisively sculpted in uncommonly high relief . |
| 23 | Just what this wondrous new jargon phrase means is a considerable mystery to many yet to others it is the best thing to happen on a micro . |
| 24 | He is so different from the others , from Terry and Havvie ; he loves me truly for myself , which is the best thing of all , not because I am Papa 's rich daughter , the King 's friend . |
| 25 | That is the best thing for industry and for a strong recovery from the recession . |
| 26 | Hon. Members seem to think that the council tax is the best thing since sliced bread , but we know that the sliced bread is extremely stale . |
| 27 | Reaching the cup final is the best thing ever to happen to me . |
| 28 | Just do that that , that 's what I find is the best thing to do and then carry on with what you have to say and then the gestures become quite natural because all of this this is is not I 'm not trying |
| 29 | He was a member of the teams which won in Ohio in 1987 and then tied at the Sutton Coldfield course two years later , and commented : ‘ Playing in the cup is the best thing ever . |
| 30 | O'Brien 's solution bears a remarkable similarity to the Ulster Unionists ' — even-handed selective internment , first in the North and then in the South , accompanied by a determination by London to drop its neutrality , accepting that direct rule is the best thing available , politically . |