Example sentences of "[adv] the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long gestation comes from the fact that , although mechanical and chemical engineering hold few surprises — if the design looks all right the thing will probably work — electronic engineering carries no such assurances . |
| 2 | Apparently the thing will be based on a still-unannounced workstation , a Tsunami possibly . |
| 3 | Basically the thing is not working as it should , the outputs are not as they should be so he will probably begin by checking that the inputs are present , that is the electric power or fuel or other materials are available . |
| 4 | You know , because tremendous publicity quite rightly the thing given to the campaign to save the pits . |
| 5 | You see , Ludens , if one goes on far enough the thing collapses under its own weight . ’ |
| 6 | Strangely enough the thing that most people have problems with when installing a new drive is the ribbon cable . |
| 7 | He put down the Thing . |
| 8 | Perhaps the thing the world owes to Sir Karl Popper is the death blow he has dealt to this naive , inductivist view of how science progresses . |
| 9 | Perhaps the thing to do would be to translate it into French and back again . |
| 10 | Erm perhaps the thing to do is to look at how it varied in nineteen eighty six . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Obviously the thing I have is the looks , which will help , but hopefully people will like the music too . ’ |
| 13 | The wrong thing to do is to think , " I hear a lot about resources based learning : it is obviously the thing to do : therefore I will experiment with it next term . " |
| 14 | So the thing was settled . |
| 15 | So the thing is , sometimes you just do n't eat . |
| 16 | So the thing you 're saying you 're saying that people |
| 17 | So the thing is with all financial planning that you try and keep things very flexible . |
| 18 | Right so the thing is if we talk about what you 've read and then The idea is that if there 's anything out of you 've read that 's given you an idea for an essay then you can do that . |
| 19 | And you 've got perfect liver function tests which is what we thought you 'd have all So the thing to do is to now get you on Terbinefeine Yeah ? |
| 20 | Probably five eight rather than cos yeah I erm okay see erm right right right erm , so the thing that I would be looking for , if I could find this , would be what 's doing the colouring and how , how does that work ? |
| 21 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
| 22 | So the thing , the thing to do is to sort of dot around in the conversation things like pre antidisestablishmentarianism . |
| 23 | so the thing 's gon na tower above their blooming |
| 24 | So the thing is |
| 25 | So the thing is , if he , inconsistent in that story , if he 's doing that , that direction how did he get shot from that way , where he 's own telling stories apparently coming from ? |
| 26 | Now so the thing , and that goes in here , can use |
| 27 | See if there 's any di cos I mean they 've done all the thing be before , so the thing is as up to the noo , they want to see if there 's any |
| 28 | So the thing is that the erm , at Rolling Stone we actually called the paste-up people . |
| 29 | VIOLIN concertos are very much the thing for British composers lately . |
| 30 | Among the common people it was very much the thing . |