Example sentences of "thing is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the second thing is that repossessed houses very very quickly begin to look dirty and battered . |
| 2 | Perhaps the remarkable thing is that married women who are professionals in their own right have any children at all ; a high proportion certainly stay unmarried . |
| 3 | The surprising thing is that Russian companies choose to repatriate anything at all , officially . |
| 4 | The interesting thing is that different people come up with very different ideas . |
| 5 | For as closer inspection shows , the significant thing is that common sense and the mystical are invoked by the Zande at different levels of interpretation . |
| 6 | I think perhaps the most important thing is that voluntary agencies should do what they believe is right , and not allow their own objectives to be distorted , simply because a , of particular flavours , which is why I 'm saying let us grab the agenda and write the agenda , rather than have the agenda set for us by other people . |