Example sentences of "[verb] [be] the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting Arnold Palmer has been the greatest thing that has happened to me . |
| 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 | At the moment , Rabbit 's British-made GPT phone is the only digital portable phone widely available in the UK , and the telepoint network it uses is the nearest thing you can get to digital mobile telephony . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Watching my son die was the hardest thing I 've ever had to do . |
| 12 | One recalls the disease of indifference in the abandoned ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter and observes how odd its symptoms are ; or one quotes Stavrogin 's notebook rejoinder that simply to live is the hardest thing of all . |
| 13 | so then the very time he went in I you know , took did n't say anything at all I thought was the best thing . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 15 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 18 | Nobody can replace that — buzz , but for me , rallying is the nearest thing to being high again . |