Example sentences of "[verb] [is] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Thus in the current debate about the ordination of women , both sides ask what does Jesus ' message suggest is the right thing to do , what difference does it make that Jesus was a male human being , or what kind of a community was the early church ? |
| 2 | It is also confusion between a proper assurance based on experience and the insight deriving from it , and the dogmatism which so easily follows but is distinct from it , and which insists that what we happen to know is the only thing that matters — what others have discovered or had revealed to them is unimportant . |
| 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 | Because their faith tells to rejoice , but circumstances of life can be such that rejoicing is the one thing that they can not do . |
| 5 | you just said Indian , and I 'm always trying to say what , what I believe is the correct thing to say these |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps England winning is the best thing that could have happened to South African rugby . |
| 9 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 10 | So if you 're going to plan ahead , now , which I think is the only thing you can do in the circumstances … what I suggest is a with-profits endowment policy linked to a seven-year maturity date with yearly incrementals — optional , if you like , or you can build them in , it depends how optimistic you are about your career , ha ha — leaving a little bit of the schools fees to pay at the time , but there will be a big chunk taken out , that 's for sure … and do it off monthly standing orders of around … let's say … five hundred a month ? |
| 11 | Staying put is the natural thing for it to do . |
| 12 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 13 | Clothes-speak is the coming thing . |
| 14 | But the one occasion when you do n't , the thing you need is the one thing you do n't have ! ’ |
| 15 | But with bitter consequences , for the target they have chosen is the very thing they should be preserving at all costs . |
| 16 | I do n't , I do n't think dieting is the main thing , it 's just cutting down and getting more exercise |
| 17 | Working is the last thing on their minds . |
| 18 | Nobody can replace that — buzz , but for me , rallying is the nearest thing to being high again . |