Example sentences of "the [adj] thing a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second thing a fire does is to warm the house and make it inviting . |
| 2 | The hardest thing a man can do … ’ |
| 3 | The first thing a Minister in charge of a department sponsoring a Bill has to do is negotiate time from the Leader of the House for his Bill . |
| 4 | The first thing a Minister has to do , then , is negotiate for time with the Leader of the House . |
| 5 | You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey |
| 6 | The first thing a gardener 's got to have is an interest in the job , and he 's got to be motivated to do it . |
| 7 | If you produce a proposal , the first thing a lot of British engineers will do is tell you what 's wrong with it . |
| 8 | Apart from the shining neon power switch and the Slave function already discussed , the Behringer will sit quietly in your rack , floating in a sea of general blackness , and probably wo n't be the first thing a visitor to your studio comments upon . |
| 9 | Approaching Lothern the first thing a mariner sees is the Glittering Tower , a great lighthouse filled with thousands of lamps , situated on a rocky isle in the mouth of the treacherous waters of the Straits of Lothern . |
| 10 | The first thing a refugee child learns is the name of his or her home village in Palestine . |
| 11 | It 's about the one thing a year he does do and crows about . |
| 12 | Margaret Thatcher had created a ‘ supermarket society ’ where the only thing a society needed was a credit card and the only freedoms that mattered were those that could be bought . |
| 13 | The only thing a man 's got to do in this world is stand up when he pees . ’ |
| 14 | Strength is the only thing a beast like that understands . |
| 15 | Now they 're helping us do exactly the same thing a couple of hundred years on . |
| 16 | But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was dying that was the bravest thing a person could do ? |
| 18 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 19 | The whole thing a gorgon |
| 20 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 21 | I interspersed my self-portraits throughout the collection and they gave the whole thing a lot of impact if I do say so myself . |
| 22 | Even so , the last thing a Profitboss does is get publicity for himself |
| 23 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 24 | The last thing a child of 15 needed , Frances Crook forcibly suggested , was cell confinement and sensory deprivation . |
| 25 | But the last thing a 12-string requires is a set of Velvet Brick humbuckers , and the kind of player who 'd want a 6-string like the Teardrop will probably be looking for more twang than thrang , and so the same applies . |
| 26 | Had he known it , he had merely started the echo of another man 's voice in Harry 's overburdened mind , saying bitterly : ‘ Light is the last thing a man should willingly surrender . |
| 27 | I was told that the last thing a parish priest coming in would want would be to take place before he |