Example sentences of "[pers pn] were the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 2 | They were stopped and questioned by the police , who thought they were the real thing . |
| 3 | Like all old miners , he remembered the coming of the pit baths , they were the best thing that ever happened , he said . |
| 4 | They were the last thing that Lucasta Redburn saw . |
| 5 | No I think he generally thought they were the same thing , I think I would of done if I was n't an educationalist , but I mean it 's his business to know really is n't it ? |
| 6 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 7 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 8 | Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment . |
| 9 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 10 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |