Example sentences of "a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | learning to relax is not simply a pleasant thing to do . |
| 2 | It 's not a pleasant thing to be walking up and down those side streets off Soho Square and those neighbourhoods on your own on a dark night in the winter . |
| 3 | Sergeant laughed , too , and thought what a pleasant thing it was to have a flock of fun-loving ducks for friends . |
| 4 | Er , if anybody has , did n't have spinach for lunch , I have a purloined thing of scissors . |
| 5 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 6 | Bith took off his hat , which was a polite thing to be doing , and Culdub Oakapple tucked his yellow neckerchief into his collar by way of table napkin . |
| 7 | As an afterthought she said , ‘ It ai n't a shameful thing to need help , you know . ’ |
| 8 | It is a shameful thing . |
| 9 | First because it er offers the Government quite a good reason for dropping the bill altogether , er a er and bowing to parliamentary opinion in doing so that 's not a shameful thing to do , er if it had been able to do that on the other hand it would have the benefit of in=incorporating in its own proposals a measure of continuity and experience which are no there already . |
| 10 | Form is a durable thing . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , form is a durable thing . |
| 12 | It was a private thing . |
| 13 | Mind you , you do n't have to do , with it being gas , you do n't have to have a solid thing |
| 14 | They want to be effective in helping children to learn and develop , and they want to be able to feel pleasure in doing so , and pleased with themselves ( though often they find this a not-quite-nice thing to admit to ) for having done a good job . |
| 15 | Oh was this quite a usual thing for |
| 16 | ‘ Murder is not a usual thing . ’ |
| 17 | Oh no it was a usual thing you know , anybody 'd go out of their way then to help . |
| 18 | The touch of light … is a fiery thing . |
| 19 | Humility is a strong thing . |
| 20 | This was quite a normal thing at that time and neighbours would call to pay their last respects . |
| 21 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 22 | I would n't say it was brave it was a normal thing to do , was n't brave , there was nothing brave about that . |
| 23 | Was just a normal thing to do |
| 24 | it 's just a normal thing that happens |
| 25 | It 's a normal thing to do , to teach your children everything from the time they 're born , so to put some kind of arbitrary division on where you stop helping is nonsense to the child and it 's , it 's absurd to parents , too , and of course it does n't happen . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a two-way thing : I had those feelings long before I wrote drafts for the script , but the process of writing and research inflamed them . |
| 27 | The premier 's talk of working with councils rings rather hollow in Mr Cawley 's ears : ‘ My idea of a partnership is that it 's a two-way thing , with give and take . |
| 28 | As one pupil succinctly put it ‘ you then treat them without any respect because they do n't give you any , so really it 's just a two-way thing ’ . |
| 29 | I knew it was a two-way thing . |
| 30 | Mr Essex says music is a two-way thing : ‘ My pupils inspire me as much as I inspire them . ’ |