Example sentences of "[art] good thing [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the best thing about the lovers is the way they convey adolescent awkwardness towards each other , their sexual excitement is less marked and both underplay the eloquence of their ecstatic speeches . |
| 2 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 3 | One of Mozart 's contemporaries summed up what were probably the feelings of many fellow-musicians on hearing the news of his death : it was , of course , a pity that such a great genius was dead , but on the whole it was a good thing for the others . |
| 4 | Oh two or three years before , only it turned out , after a time , that the men were earning more money than me because I , the bonus , you understand , it was a good thing for the firm , it was a good thing for the men . |
| 5 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 6 | At Romford , horses-for-courses punters will make Simple Trend a good thing in the heats of the Joe Magnus Rose Bowl heats . |