Example sentences of "[vb base] be the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ( 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 ? |
| 3 | you just said Indian , and I 'm always trying to say what , what I believe is the correct thing to say these |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 6 | Okay erm what I 'd like you to do now is I 'd like you to tell me what you think are the important things about fractions and anything important or interesting that you 've learnt this afternoon . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Once again DEFECT is the best thing I could have done . |
| 9 | Clothes-speak is the coming thing . |
| 10 | For a century , after all , the bicheiros have been the closest thing in Brazil to a robber aristocracy . |
| 11 | But the one occasion when you do n't , the thing you need is the one thing you do n't have ! ’ |