Example sentences of "[verb] be a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 2 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 3 | But , gentlemen , of this I am certain , the Conservative Party has been a good thing for this country and it is our business today , and as long as we can , to keep that Party solid ; and if splits must come , to delay them as long as we possibly can ( Applause ) . |
| 4 | Driving to the sterilised zone in which the malais had reconstructed a thatched Danuese village complete with miniature ricebarns , one of the two Americans turned and said to me : ‘ Sir , tell me , truly , do you think the Integration has been a good thing for your country ? ’ |
| 5 | Their formation has been a good thing . |
| 6 | This has been a difficult thing to bring about . |
| 7 | I realize this has been a horrible thing to happen to you . |
| 8 | The prevalence of assignments for development , coupled with the belief that being moved is A Good Thing , a reward for virtue . |
| 9 | We did n't fish in the accepted sense , which I 've always thought was a ghoulish thing to do anyway . |
| 10 | Well I 'd like to speak about the gallery I like to speak for myself and er just the visual arts and er the gallery when it first started was a gallery very much appreciated by appreciated by the Eastern Region er they saw it as potential a very significant gallery in the whole region which would have been a marvellous thing for Harlow to have . |
| 11 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 12 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 13 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 14 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 15 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 16 | It would have been a casual thing and not with anyone who was camp , like him . |
| 17 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 18 | Whatever it was that had happened between Richard Ward and his wife , it must have been a bad thing because , to Beth 's mind , it had brought nothing good . |
| 19 | Which , to Charles ' mind , would n't have been a bad thing . |
| 20 | what , but , it 's about the Co-Op , I went to the Co-Op in me dream , nothing but have on , and I was getting some of them what must have been a monthly thing |
| 21 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 22 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 23 | I think a lot of schools do still teach the t the children their tables which I think is a good thing . |
| 24 | If the bookie appears to be offering unfavourable odds , then a gambler will tend not to bet , whereas if the bookie appears to have made a mistake by offering , say , odds of five to one on a horse that you think is a sure thing , then you 'll place your money there . |
| 25 | It had been a stupid thing to do , on that day of all days . |
| 26 | It had been a stupid thing to say . |
| 27 | It had been a close thing . |
| 28 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 29 | It had been a close-run thing . |
| 30 | But he was in a peer mechanism which had been a longstanding thing with trade unionism management for many years , with no replacement . |