Example sentences of "[verb] [is] the [adj -est] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 5 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 6 | Nobody can replace that — buzz , but for me , rallying is the nearest thing to being high again . |