Example sentences of "[vb base] the [adj] thing be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean the other thing is if we are absolutely honest , which we should n't be with a microphone in front of us but , if we 're absolutely honest , you know this , this is a bit of work that we 're trying to make simple |
| 2 | But I mean the best thing is the tin it come in . |
| 3 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
| 4 | I mean the main thing is these new leaflets really |
| 5 | I mean the whole thing is wrong , the reconstruction , the theory behind it . |
| 6 | There 's nothing really more I mean the whole thing is a budget guesstimate . |
| 7 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 8 | So it 's not a lot of lot of bother the only thing is that i you got ta drive in town rather than drive on country lanes to get to the main roads little bit more dangerous as far as getting caught is concerned ha ! |
| 9 | The police say the alarming thing is that they 're having to deal with much worse cases . |
| 10 | work in a carpet place the only thing is |
| 11 | Android animals which exactly mimic the real thing are produced to fill the gap , but their owners hide their mechanical origin from outsiders . ) |
| 12 | " Well , " the McLaren girl said , " I guess the whole thing was kind of a bother , but I had n't thought of it that way . |
| 13 | I suppose the sad thing is that the mancs thought that neutrals were behind them . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , he 's rural dean , so I suppose the next thing is archdeacon . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose the whole thing was done in a bit of a hurry . |
| 16 | I bet the whole thing is going to cost millions of pounds . |
| 17 | The point is that when I go The best thing is wedding fairs where you are seen and talk to people , but again that is a lot of effort depends very much |
| 18 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 19 | We have overhauled the plans in some of the companies , we 've considered changes that should be done to erm make them more , actually more cost effective for the employee , there 's an element of shifting the cost to the employee while still providing them with coverage and I think the other thing is that erm given the the redundancies that have gone on in Camco and other parts of the group and cost cutting generally , it 's very difficult at this stage to predict you have all sorts of things like actuarial assumptions erm cost inflation of medical costs . |
| 20 | I think the other thing is is about erm flexible as well , we 've got a flexible workforce . |
| 21 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 22 | but I think the other thing is that it 's just a question of the people in our business supposed to be being professional communicators |
| 23 | I think the other thing is it 's very much an appraisal of the working relationship between the appraiser and the appraisee the way we 're doing it . |
| 24 | I think , I think the other thing is that if there is a need that 's , that 's quite common erm you know talking amongst ourselves , I think sometimes we 're gon na have t just do more within the division , you know I , I , |
| 25 | Secondly I think the other thing is , is a change in what is regarded as the content of history . |
| 26 | I think the other thing was that I wanted to be known as a musician rather than some other phenomenon other than a musician and I think that also had an effect on me too . |
| 27 | I think the key thing is to listen to that instinct as it 's most probably the thing that has the highest chance of being right . |
| 28 | It 's not as bad as I think , I think the funniest thing was erm is that that Hackney Housing Office down here looks just like a squat is that the housing office for Hackney |
| 29 | The other thing , which I think is a , another great misconception is er our present Prime Ministers ' policy of having a classless society , well I think the first thing is you could do is actually abolish the House of Lords and that will certainly be a start on having a classless society in this country . |
| 30 | I think the first thing is to improve the appearance , because the area itself appears to me to be to be thriving . |