Example sentences of "a good thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece . |
| 2 | When I went to drama school it was all very new to me so I did n't have any real comparisons to make — which is a good thing . |
| 3 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
| 4 | However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . |
| 5 | If the incipient spin has progressed for more than about half a turn because the pilot has kept the stick back , applying the full opposite rudder must be a good thing because it helps to stop the rotation and to even up the stalling of the wings . |
| 6 | If the pilot is aware that the glider is stalled , applying the opposite rudder at the same time as moving forwards on the stick should result in some reduction in the yawing movement towards the dropping wing , and therefore must be a good thing . |
| 7 | If she does n't know what a good thing you are , I feel sorry for her . |
| 8 | This is a good thing because , even if you could , further impacts might well drive them inwards , skewering your lungs . |
| 9 | After thinking about it , Cameron replied , ‘ James , I was told a good thing once , by the sawyer at Bunarkaig . |
| 10 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued . |
| 12 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 13 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 14 | Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia . |
| 15 | Similarly , to look at our activity in the self-reflective consciousness provided by ‘ theory ’ can be salutary ; it is a good thing to know what we are doing , and , if possible , why . |
| 16 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 17 | The burgeoning Neo-Classical architects , such as John Simpson and Quinlan Terry , are , by nature of the style they choose to work in , a good thing . |
| 18 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 19 | The layman 's reaction is probably ‘ and a good thing , too ’ . |
| 20 | But Jews know a good thing when they taste it and alighted on the herring because it was inexpensive , piquant , nutritious and versatile . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's a bit of fun , and if it appeals to the young people , that 's a good thing . |
| 22 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 23 | They have to be a good thing for anyone who is content to be out of shares and keep part of their money in liquid money funds ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 25 | Instead , it is claimed , Britain 's economic decline has been reversed ; in the process much of the post-war consensus has been broken , and a good thing too . |
| 26 | I have found no evidence that at any stage anyone said ‘ what is this Sterling Area , and is it obviously a good thing for Britain ? ’ |
| 27 | a collection of targeted retail companies supported by a strong central management core actually is a good thing rather than a bad thing . |
| 28 | Encouraging enterprise is a good thing in many respects , but enterprise has been defined in people 's minds as looking after your self-interest . |
| 29 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 30 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |