Example sentences of "thing [to-vb] in [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was an odd thing to say ( it would n't matter if the film was brilliant — it would still probably provoke mirth among non-believers ) , but then it was also an odd thing to see in a film which was presumably trying to revamp the alien invasion genre for a new age , because it was such a throwback to the cinematic aliens of the last few years . |
| 2 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 3 | ITHINK if we are ever to see grand hokum in the Mac marketplace we 'll see it in the months ahead , as the M-word — multimedia — becomes the in thing to discuss in the 1990s . |
| 4 | I shall certainly do what I can to advance the matter , but I hesitate to say what about the paper , because I do n't think it is an easy thing to cover in a paper . |
| 5 | He asked me to try and get him a map but this was a difficult thing to do in a place the size of Fontanellato , where hardly anyone possessed even an atlas of the world . |
| 6 | ‘ The only thing to do in a crisis is to change people ’ . |
| 7 | And I would have thought that that was a disgraceful thing to do in a public , in the council to a , a sample being brought up and they were afraid to look at it . |
| 8 | This was quite the right thing to do in a coffee-bar in the King 's Road . |
| 9 | That would be the proper thing to do in a student textbook . |
| 10 | which is a sensible thing to do in a way . |
| 11 | The most fun thing to do in the whole country is walk around semi-darkened shopping centres after they have closed , looking at the windows of stores selling platoons of wheelbarrows and plastic garden furniture . |
| 12 | It 's a much more normal thing to do in the States . ’ |
| 13 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 14 | I believe she was very young — just a little thing — but it must have seemed the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 15 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 16 | Tell me , it 's , it 's probably quite an expensive thing to do in the first place without having to , to , to bring home , home some money for charity in the end , how have you gone about doing it ? |
| 17 | One of , one of the things is the , is the , I do n't know what the eye is the good thing to have in the , if somehow or other |
| 18 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 19 | She has only one main thing to say in the book and that is : |
| 20 | It 's a strange thing to say in an empty tin box , but I suddenly feel almost at home . ’ |
| 21 | For the Gentiles to receive the word of God , at this point in history , was a truly extraordinary thing to happen in the eyes of those who had been used to years of prejudice against the Gentiles . |
| 22 | But the most exciting , important and , in the long run , sensible thing to happen in the paperback business this year is the amalgamation of Fontana and Grafton in August , to become HarperCollins Paperbacks . |
| 23 | ‘ We can not allow that sort of thing to happen in the World Cup . |
| 24 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |