Example sentences of "[be] [adj] a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 3 | ‘ You can be so sweet , Simon , ’ she said , ‘ but you 're such a stubborn thing ! ’ |
| 4 | And would that be such a good thing , after all ? |
| 5 | Failure would be such a terrible thing . |
| 6 | I saw it as a disaster and it happened , but I did n't think it would be such a hello-goodbye thing as it turned out to be . ’ |
| 7 | If legislation is needed to get the treaty through Parliament , if it is so popular with the country , and if it will be such a wonderful thing for unemployed people , for women , for the regions and for business , why does not the Prime Minister dissolve Parliament next week and have a general election in January ? |
| 8 | Now that might not be such a bad thing . |
| 9 | Perhaps resting there would not be such a bad thing for a week or two longer ? |
| 10 | But that may not be such a bad thing , says Ian Marshall . |
| 11 | A member of our research team will show a tape of one of the programmes and hopefully that will persuade whoever it may be that it might not be such a bad thing to appear on it . |
| 12 | However , such a mental exercise may be found to be of more benefit to him than could any rules , and as such may not be such a bad thing . |
| 13 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 14 | It might not be such a bad thing — if we can get decent cover for Beeney at a cheap price , we should still be able to get a decent fee for Lukic . |
| 15 | People will start talking about Leeds and that ca n't be all a bad thing . |
| 16 | Is that a nice thing to do to a friend , eh ? ’ |
| 17 | Is that a good thing ? |
| 18 | ‘ Using your men as hostages , ’ questioned Frick , ‘ is that a good thing ? |
| 19 | Is that a good thing ? |
| 20 | Is that a good thing ? |
| 21 | That 's is that a new thing then ? |
| 22 | Is that a bad thing ? |
| 23 | Okay so they 're reactive erm Is this a good thing this radioactivity ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But is this a good thing ? |
| 26 | Is this a sacred thing , that I can only go forward ? |
| 27 | I mean , chicken-pox is such a stupid thing to have at my age . ’ |
| 28 | Walking is such a simple thing and yet we all take it very much for granted . |
| 29 | Success is such a personal thing . |
| 30 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |