Example sentences of "[adj] thing [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war Goldschmidt played a central role in the development of the French nuclear power programme and he has some complimentary , uncomplimentary and candid things to say about the British civil nuclear power programme . |
| 2 | A good Home will help its residents to keep as fit as they can and will offer plenty of different things to do during the week . |
| 3 | He can not work but wants interesting things to do in the day time . |
| 4 | That would be the proper thing to do in a student textbook . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 7 | which is a sensible thing to do in a way . |
| 8 | This is the most exciting thing to happen on the UK tobacco control front for many years . |
| 9 | ‘ Another thing to remember at the interview , ’ said Sukey pointedly , ‘ is to let Perdita do the talking . |
| 10 | Everyone in the village is shocked , you do n't expect such things to happen in a quiet backwater . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a very serious thing to lie on an application form . ’ |
| 13 | John Major saying that people will have to accept restrictions on on car usages and it 's an amazing thing to come from a Tory . |
| 14 | This sequence could not occur in The Possessed — a dangerous thing to say about a very long and diverse book , but true . |
| 15 | Erm the tribunal may well say that one of those clauses should be if you lose your driving licence you lose your job , so it 's a fairly dangerous thing to apply to the tribunal to get terms of employment sorted out . |
| 16 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 17 | ‘ Beast — what a beastly thing to do to a poor girl . |
| 18 | It would be the obvious thing to do under the circumstances . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One major OECD figure had already had momentous things to say about the Gulf . |
| 21 | ‘ What odd things to put in a deposit box ! ’ she said , intrigued , putting it beside the gondola . |
| 22 | And have quite a lot of good things to say about the flats and the |
| 23 | There are some unusually good things to see inside the church of Saint-Savin : a ‘ Eucharist tower ’ twenty feet and three storeys high , Gothic in style , and made of gilded wood ; two primitive fifteenth-century panels , each containing nine scenes from the life of the church 's name-saint ; a Renaissance organ carried on what is left of a wooden gallery that once ran right across the church , from transept to transept — on the front of the instrument are three articulated mascarons , which moved their eyes and tongues as the organ played , in representation of wretched earthly sinners , grimacing at the intolerable sound of joyful , heavenly music . |
| 24 | ON the golf course , 1989 was a vintage to declare and may well be the source of good things to come in the publishing world . |
| 25 | I am convinced that this is because the barbel are so conditioned to seeing this plastic larder pop through the surface and spread good things to eat along the bottom , they are waiting for it to happen . |
| 26 | Roger Freeman is a most knowledgeable writer on all things to do with the machines , units and campaigns of the USAAF in WWII . |
| 27 | That is why rice and pasta are such useful things to have in the store cupboard , because you can mix them with anything . |
| 28 | I have extraordinary things to report about the child . |
| 29 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 30 | 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 |