Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] thing [subord] a " in BNC.
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1 | Well it 's the same thing as a travel agent |
2 | Den , ever willing to let Nessie do the work , let her take over , and lurched towards the house , saying , ‘ It 's a terrible thing when a good son becomes a responsibility . |
3 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
4 | For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement . |
5 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
6 | Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet . |
7 | If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family . |
8 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
9 | Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card . |
10 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
11 | To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place . |
12 | ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’ |
13 | Lashley finally concluded that there is no such thing as a localised engram . |
14 | ‘ Nowadays , there is no such thing as a bad job . |
15 | There is no such thing as a bargain either . |
16 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |
17 | That may be a ‘ price worth paying ’ to relieve recession , but if economics tells us anything it is that there is no such thing as a free lunch . |
18 | There is no such thing as a worthless book , though there are some far worse than worthless ; no book which is not worth preserving , if its existence may be tolerated ; as there are some men whom it may be proper to hang , but none who should be suffered to starve . |
19 | In a way , mentally , there is no such thing as a ‘ natural ’ driver . |
20 | Less comforting , though , is the realization that this concept implies that there is no such thing as a fixed reality — which is exactly what we observe on the subatomic scale . |
21 | But in spite of what is often claimed , there is no such thing as a dead marriage . |
22 | Another designer , this time a man , told me there is no such thing as a really new design , only a bit taken from here and something else added from there . |
23 | They argue that if the Greeks can demonstrate with exhibitions such as this that there is no such thing as a Macedonian culture in the former Yugoslavia , Serbian claims to cultural domination of the region are strengthened and Macedonia is more likely to suffer the kind of atrocities that Croatia and Bosnia have endured . |
24 | In isolation , there is no such thing as a price that is ‘ too high ’ . |
25 | If history is a process , Althusser remarks , ‘ there is no such thing as a process except in relations [ sous des rapports ] ’ . |
26 | Looked at this way , there is no such thing as a special kind of behaviour called ‘ political ’ ; there is only a political dimension to behaviour … ’ |
27 | ‘ In fact ’ , Julia utters , ‘ there is no such thing as a green product ’ . |
28 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
29 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
30 | Truly , there is no such thing as a ‘ free lunch ’ , every decision has its own inherent problems . |