Example sentences of "[det] [is] [art] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | One person holds up each of the objects in turn and says ‘ This is a thing , a very pretty thing , what must the owner do to receive it ? ’ |
| 2 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 3 | Henry VII , asking for such a loan in 1496 , told his people that ‘ this is a thing of so great weight and importance as may not be failed , and therefore fail ye not thereof for your said part … as ye intend the good and honour of us and of this our realm ; and as ye tender also the weal and surety of yourself ’ . |
| 4 | 'Cos I think another thing , where a lot of pressure comes on scientists , is where , it says a lot of cases , where profit is in the offing , this is a thing , |
| 5 | Ah this is a thing which um maybe is quite difficult to do , particularly as we have a culture of stiff upper lips and erm er a culture of of not making a fuss about things and a culture of particularly telling children not to make a fuss about things , a culture of trying to ensure that children ca n't legitimately make a fuss about things . |
| 6 | Yes , we have had other school groups but they , this is the thing , this , I mean , it could happen with you , as , as people move on and leave school er you need to encourage people lower down the school to get interested and then , then it 'll , it 'll carry on otherwise they tend to drop . |
| 7 | Erm metal oxides , metal the oxides , differences see , this is the thing they 're all sort of quite keen on , so some of the important metals here . |
| 8 | This is the thing Ken done for us . |
| 9 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 10 | So this is the thing you have to have to bear in mind . |
| 11 | This is the thing . |
| 12 | It really is , this is the thing that people wo n't believe . |
| 13 | They go back to it , this is the thing . |
| 14 | This i this is the thing , with youngsters like that , you never know . |
| 15 | But this is the thing , if he does n't go there , if he needs to go there and he does n't go there , he 's going to get worse . |
| 16 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 17 | This is the thing you see now |
| 18 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 19 | Now you 've saved her from eating it , this is the thing . |
| 20 | This is the thing . |
| 21 | This is the thing |
| 22 | Well this is the thing I ca n't understand , especially Mark and that . |
| 23 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 24 | This is the thing . |
| 25 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
| 26 | Well this is the thing that worries me a little bit , but can I say |
| 27 | You see this is the thing that worries me because , you know , when I stand up and say I like what John Dreyfus did and I think his looks very good and I maintain the traditions of the Oxford University Press , I can suddenly feel that I 'm being typecast as being in the English tradition of typography as a revered art and the Morrisonian thing and the whole thing separate from , you know , a culture within a culture and a separate thing . |
| 28 | One of them is , I do n't have 31 trunk access codes on them , if you want to try them , I only have 6. erm Direct extension select , basically I was saying that only very , very top managers and stuff can override diverts , well this is the thing to use . |
| 29 | This is the thing . |
| 30 | That is a thing to do and I will do it . |