Example sentences of "[adv] such [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had hoped that somehow such a thing would happen . |
| 2 | Is there not such a thing as pity ? |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't like to say that there is not such a thing as black magic but I know of a coincidence , or something that happened regularly . |
| 4 | Not such a thing as parents ' rights is there ? |
| 5 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 6 | As we have noted , if there were ever such a thing as a variety that was completely insulated and unaffected by external influence , these findings suggest very strongly that it would not be uniform and that there would still be variable community norms within it . |
| 7 | And if there is ever such a thing , air drumming . |
| 8 | Scotland could n't manage more than a tweak of the giants ' noses , but showed that there 's still such a thing as going down with honour . |
| 9 | There is still such a thing as making a good end . |
| 10 | Is there still such a thing ? ’ |
| 11 | If I admit that there is such a thing as a suicidal temperament , then I am forced to admit that there is also such a thing as an anorexic temperament . |
| 12 | But his conclusion is that there is n't such a thing as an aphrodisiac . |
| 13 | Was it sheer arrogance to insist , ‘ There is n't such a thing as Majorism ’ ? |
| 14 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 15 | But way back er there was n't such a thing as a pet shop . |
| 16 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 17 | Quite often we found we went to places where there was n't such a thing ’ . |
| 18 | Yes but could they not be brainwashed if you like into thinking well there 's nothing much wrong there is n't such a thing as evil |
| 19 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 20 | There is n't such a thing . |
| 21 | On the earliest journeys of 1825 , there was n't such a thing as a station . |
| 22 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 23 | Sometimes such a thing does happen . |
| 24 | Examining so intricate a nest one wonders how such a thing could be possible . |
| 25 | Oh never such a thing as a bus , was brakes in these days that went to the country . |