Example sentences of "'s a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's a disgusting thing to say . |
| 2 | If you speak there 's a black thing that appears . |
| 3 | Yeah , actually I really like fashion photography ; not typical fashion , but there 's a certain thing I know personally I 'd like to do in fashion photography . |
| 4 | They do do a lot , they travel all over the country , er , and I think it 's a worthwhile thing , I mean , you see the kids dressed up smart . |
| 5 | You see , it 's not er a natural thing , but it 's a spiritual thing . |
| 6 | You know , it 's a separate thing so there must be a separate price , it would cost a bloody fortune . |
| 7 | Yeah well you need a gap there after it 's a separate thing is n't it ? |
| 8 | It 's a serious thing being an outlaw rapper . |
| 9 | There 's a bloody thing ! |
| 10 | Black guys say it 's a monetary thing , but I do n't think its strictly money . |
| 11 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 12 | Well I think it 's a joint er it 's a joint thing it 's an agreement we have with the United States Air Force , they send somebody over here to our Academy and then erm we send somebody over there . |
| 13 | It 's a worldwide thing though . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , here 's a nice thing for the parish , Father . |
| 15 | That 's a nice thing for the parish . |
| 16 | It 's a nice thing to know if you ever get tense , er decide that this is it , I 'll throw things Er well I do when I want to throw things at the kitchen and go away and you use aromatherapy . |
| 17 | It 's a nice thing to learn . |
| 18 | That 's a nice thing . |
| 19 | It 's a normal thing to do , to teach your children everything from the time they 're born , so to put some kind of arbitrary division on where you stop helping is nonsense to the child and it 's , it 's absurd to parents , too , and of course it does n't happen . |
| 20 | For example a couple of weeks ago there was a thing on tit for tat and this week there 's a fascinating thing on snakes and female sexuality which erm illustrates er some of the points I 'll be , I 'll , I 'll be making and although as Sue rightly says erm , most of the articles in Nature are rather technical and difficult to understand if you 're not a specialist they do make concessions to the rest of us by publishing very often erm summaries er in the first part of the journal erm and there is one on this and er I can recommend that . |
| 21 | Which is actually , that 's a chemical thing , is n't it , that 's the E E C |
| 22 | It 's a crawly thing . |
| 23 | I suppose it 's a satisfying thing — to know you 've done it at last and it 's all there , nice and clean . |
| 24 | But that 's a regular thing up here in the Northeast . |
| 25 | ‘ It sounds like it 's a regular thing . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps it 's a small thing but it 's a touchstone of other things and a reflection of the importance given to God and christian principles in the home . |
| 27 | But , but in writing historical erm , analysis and , and biography , presumably people , I mean , people ca n't help er writing , writing history , and trying to answer questions , like , why did Woodrow Wilson erm , not the fourteen points through , and presumably , one possible explanation is the kind of Freud Bullett approach , and presumably if you can find erm , relevant data and if you convince , and if you can convince that that 's plausible , it 's a legitimate thing to attempt to do . |
| 28 | Well , that 's a practical thing they can do , is n't it . |
| 29 | It 's a temperamental thing . |
| 30 | " It 's a nervous thing I have . " |