Example sentences of "[art] thing [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 2 | Bangkok , was delayed for up to two days , and in Moscow such a thing as a boarding pass , an assigned seat , has never been thought of . |
| 3 | Next week we must have Brian or Gerry telling you why I 'm wrong and they 'd be as persuasive , or more persuasive than I 'm being , but I ca n't see the case for such a thing as a law of form . |
| 4 | As we have noted , if there were ever such a thing as a variety that was completely insulated and unaffected by external influence , these findings suggest very strongly that it would not be uniform and that there would still be variable community norms within it . |
| 5 | Well of course there is there is such a thing as a preservation order is n't there ? |
| 6 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 7 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 8 | On the earliest journeys of 1825 , there was n't such a thing as a station . |
| 9 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 10 | But way back er there was n't such a thing as a pet shop . |
| 11 | You would would you have such a thing as a hand drill and some drill would you ? |
| 12 | ‘ There would n't be such a thing as a cigarette ? |
| 13 | And he even questioned the wisdom of having such a thing as a World Cup . |
| 14 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 15 | Oh never such a thing as a bus , was brakes in these days that went to the country . |
| 16 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 17 | The idea that there is such a thing as the spirit of a time can be awkwardly challenged by asking , ‘ Whose time ? ’ |
| 18 | It was probably the right decision for tourism , but more importantly there is such a thing as the life of the soul . |
| 19 | Only surrounded by an even more far-reaching particular manifestation of life , such a thing as the expression of sorrow or affection . |
| 20 | Nobody can suggest that you can by any arithmetical calculation establish what is the exact sum of money which would represent such a thing as the pain and suffering which a person has undergone by reason of an accident … |
| 21 | And this means that there can never be such a thing as the sort of pure private ostensive definition that the solipsist ( amongst others ) is relying on . |
| 22 | Only surrounded by certain normal manifestations of life , is there such a thing as an expression of pain . |
| 23 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 24 | But his conclusion is that there is n't such a thing as an aphrodisiac . |