astonishing thing

collocation in English

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astonishing
adjective
uk
/əˈstɒn.ɪ.ʃɪŋ/us
/əˈstɑː.nɪ.ʃɪŋ/
very ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition ofastonishingandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The mostastonishingthingabout the structure is the relation of building to landscape, not only strikingly beautiful but seemingly unforced and effortless.
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It is anastonishingthingthat we have had two complaints of this sort today.
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That seems to me to be the mostastonishingthing.
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The way they retried the case was the mostastonishingthingin the world.
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It seems anastonishingthingif this is so.
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Theastonishingthingis that everybody takes it for granted.
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Its cost is the mostastonishingthingof all.
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It is anastonishingthingto me that they let it go at that.
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It is anastonishingthingto provide for such a proceeding.
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It is anastonishingthingto do to company law.
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Theastonishingthingis that somewhere in the committee there is or has been some resistance.
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That is anastonishingthingfor any senior officer to say.
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That is anastonishingthingto be asked to decide.
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And here, let me say the mostastonishingthing.
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Theastonishingthingis that there are some people who feel that it can be done.
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They say that it is anastonishingthingthat we should now have to do that.
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That has been to me anastonishingthing.
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It is a mostastonishingthingwhen you read the clause.
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Theastonishingthingabout the debate is not the motion but the amendment.
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While we are talking about freight traffic, here is a mostastonishingthing.
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