Example sentences of "thing [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fine thing for a wedding if the laird came in and read the Riot Act . ’ |
| 2 | It is one thing for a government to look benignly upon — say — a rescue of Ferranti ; or on the swallowing up of much smaller players in the defence business . |
| 3 | But on escaping from Wales to study music at Goldsmith 's College in London under the auspices of Aaron Copland , Cale decided that ‘ the best thing for a classical musician in London at that time was to get involved in avant-garde . |
| 4 | This was a delightfully outrageous thing for a little label ( stiff ) to do , just to annoy one of the biggest international companies . |
| 5 | The great thing for a first-timer like me was the crowd : noisy and well behaved . |
| 6 | Perhaps resting there would not be such a bad thing for a week or two longer ? |
| 7 | I like the way I dress , though , I 've always had this thing for a sports look , that 's what I 'm aiming for . |
| 8 | A school-boy 's exercise may be a pretty thing for a school-boy ; but is no treat for a man . |
| 9 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 10 | When Celia Fiennes travelled round England and Scotland on horseback in the late seventeenth century , it was a courageous and unconventional thing for a twenty-year-old woman to do . |
| 11 | ‘ The best thing for a gyp tum , ’ he said , ‘ is — ’ |
| 12 | I suppose it was not the done thing for a book of Rambles . |
| 13 | He was always on the watch for an affront , which he would often imagine even when it had not been intended , an easy thing for a Frenchman at a politically sensitive time . |
| 14 | ‘ The Italian Album ’ is infinitely more varied in its contents ( although I 'm note quite sure that Gabrieli 's Canzon Septimi Toni No. 2 is quite the thing for a candle-lit dinner . |
| 15 | ‘ You actors , ’ he said more indulgently , ‘ will think of any impossible thing for a plot . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been an understood thing for a year or two . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's the worst thing for a hangover and could put you on the slippery slope to alcoholism , ’ warns the magazine . |
| 18 | Just the thing for a glorious day like this . ’ |
| 19 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 20 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 21 | Actually , ’ she said , warming to her subject , ‘ I think the war was a good thing for a lot of men . |
| 22 | ‘ I know just the thing for a hedgehog party ! ’ |
| 23 | It was also an ‘ unfillial ’ thing for a Chinese son to do . |
| 24 | It 's also why , when you suggest that it might not be the most credible thing for a label in their position to sign old bores like Paul Weller and Madness , McDonald looks bewildered and offers that Go ! |
| 25 | MoMA Photography Curator Peter Galassi told The Art Newspaper , ‘ It 's a very rare thing for a museum , after the fact , to assemble a comprehensive selection of an artist 's work ’ . |
| 26 | It is one thing for a man to yield to his wife under pressure from a spirit , and quite another to be declared a witch . |
| 27 | It 's an embarrassing thing for a fault-tolerant vendor to have to say , but a bug in Guardian for the Tandem Computers Inc NonStop CLX machines caused them to reset their clocks to December 1 , 1983 on November 1 , causing systems with time-dependent programs to go haywire . |
| 28 | Hard disks can be huge , so DOS does n't search the whole thing for a matching name ; instead it looks first in the current directory and then in the subdirectories which are specified in the PATH command . |
| 29 | Just the thing for a wet day ! |
| 30 | She had a hopeless thing for a man named Lee , who was a smugly flirtatious married guy , whom I personally disliked intensely . |