Example sentences of "it [be] the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let it be the right thing that I 'm doing . " |
| 2 | I believe it was your mother who said , Would n't it be the best thing ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 7 | It 's the first thing I learnt about traditional Chinese stir frying and it 's the most important clue to the whole principle of the Wok — things happen fast . |
| 8 | It 's the first thing I look at when I wake up , the last thing at night . |
| 9 | It 's the first thing we see ; it is , if you like , the moment at which Dr Starkie introduces us to Flaubert . |
| 10 | Sorry if it 's the first thing you see in the morning , still it 's not everyone who can say they 've been sleeping with a Jesuit . |
| 11 | It 's the first thing you got with it , you get a phone call , do me alright . |
| 12 | This definition of metre takes getting used to : in music the idea that one note can realise several beats is obvious — it 's the first thing anybody learns ; but the idea that in poetry one syllable may do so is far less familiar . |
| 13 | tragic that 's a good word to start from it 's the first thing they 're gon na look at after the headline so it 's pretty important that that the first word , I think looting was an excellent choice here . |
| 14 | Well it 's the first thing that comes . |
| 15 | Right , let's , this is hypothetical so it is it 's the first thing that comes to my head but it may I would n't take it as s take groups , for example , you just got the handout on groups and you get a question coming up that might say erm , I do n't know , how could groups how could a w what does our understanding of groups owe to speech therapy ? |
| 16 | it 's the first thing kids do , draw , when |
| 17 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 18 | It 's the first thing |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do . |
| 21 | When my two children are very naughty I also smack them , and I use a slipper because it 's the softest thing that comes to hand . |
| 22 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 23 | ‘ Because it 's the only thing that 's happening , intellectually . |
| 24 | It 's the only thing that makes me proud about that country . |
| 25 | It 's the only thing I know how to ask , ’ Endill replied . |
| 26 | It 's the only thing that moves humanity forward . |
| 27 | It 's the only thing you did . |
| 28 | It 's the only thing I can do ’ . |
| 29 | You see , it is n't easy to get this kind of job without having had previous experience , and it 's the only thing I can do , because I 've no qualifications . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the only thing that suits me ’ |