Example sentences of "thing as a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears to me as though Captain Diobble has been laid out for the race and although there are no such things as a certainty in a National , I feel he may be the right one . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is , after all , no such thing as a privilege of Parliament in the strict sense . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a slave in England . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | such thing as a pill without side effects , he just said he had no side effects . |
| 7 | It is a trite observation that there is no such thing as a standard of International Law , extraneous to the domestic law of a kingdom , to which appeal may be made . |
| 8 | Whereas Ollie happens to have spotted that nowadays there is no such thing as a short-cut in London : all the back roads are dogged up by master cartologists such as Stu , petrol-pinching aficionados of kink and gully who spin their Oldsmobile Mantras into canny U-turns like instructors on the skid-rink . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sh there 's no such thing as a limit with age . |
| 11 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , we 're just going out to have one , ’ said Penelope , thinking how typical it was that Ianthe should long for such a dull and essentially English thing as a cup of tea . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And manager Graham confessed : ‘ In football , there is no such thing as a job for life . |