Example sentences of "[det] a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But was this a good thing ? |
| 2 | Okay so they 're reactive erm Is this a good thing this radioactivity ? |
| 3 | Was this a good thing , or a bad thing ? |
| 4 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 5 | But is this a good thing ? |
| 6 | Is this a sacred thing , that I can only go forward ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nor did lie think this a bad thing since , as I had emphasised before , he hail little love for Coalitions . |
| 9 | But is deference to ‘ reality ’ such a good thing anyway ? |
| 10 | On reflection , Evelyn wondered now if this was such a good thing . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ Chen added after a moment , ‘ marriage is n't always such a good thing . |
| 12 | And would that be such a good thing , after all ? |
| 13 | It 's such a good thing that I always recommend it . |
| 14 | and maybe , you know , that 's not such a good thing , but we were looking at the Phillips , erm |
| 15 | You surely can not wish to keep such a clumsy thing . ’ |
| 16 | She told me not to make a fuss over such a small thing . |
| 17 | Like North , Raskolnikov was appalled that such a small thing , so long ago , so distorted by his interrogator , should have incriminated him . |
| 18 | What really fascinated him was the idea that it was such a small thing , in such an obscure corner of the world , and between two such insignificant creatures . |
| 19 | Such a small thing for you , such a big one for me . |
| 20 | It was such a small thing to have caused so much trouble , and still to have the power to destroy . |
| 21 | They would employ if it was just such a small thing . |
| 22 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's such a wee thing , ’ Ma had said through her tears . |
| 24 | Such a curious thing for an established and respected elderly gentleman to do , now that she came to consider it seriously . |
| 25 | I mean , chicken-pox is such a stupid thing to have at my age . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , and it 's like such a long thing . |
| 27 | There was a village woman overlaid her baby last summer , such a terrible thing for everyone . |
| 28 | I suppose it was considered such a terrible thing to say about anyone that it had become a totally taboo concept — even for your worst enemy . |
| 29 | You might say that it was n't such a terrible thing , but it 's not the actual abuse that matters so much . |
| 30 | Failure would be such a terrible thing . |