Example sentences of "[art] [adj] thing [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we 'd rather have a major scare that turned out to be a false alarm than the real thing and a late start , sir . ’ |
| 2 | It 's fairly simple to spot the difference between the real thing and a fake . |
| 3 | The first thing that a reader meets is the introduction . |
| 4 | You 're putting over information on the basis that the only thing that a t an intelligent person think I 'm saying to you now , what 's going to be the effect of that on the listener ? |
| 5 | A lively memory is not the same thing as a colourful retelling of spiritual experiences . |
| 6 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 7 | A ‘ global ’ product is not the same thing as a ‘ global ’ firm or a ‘ global ’ industry . |
| 8 | A standard variety or form is not conceptually the same thing as a prestige variety or form ( on prestige , see J. Milroy , 1989 ) : the main linguistic symptom of standardization is invariance . |
| 9 | As I say the present day er premier just now is actually trying to do the same thing as a repeat performance |
| 10 | However , a cash underpinning is not entirely the same thing as a vendor placing because it will not be known exactly how many shares will be the subject of a sale ; that will depend on the number of acceptances of the cash underwritten alternative . |
| 11 | Well it 's the same thing as a travel agent |
| 12 | With all these elements in mind the best thing that a designer can do is tell you to cast off the stitches and leave the method to you . |
| 13 | The last thing that a representational theorist really wants to have to explain is the global nature of thinking ; and I suppose we can regard Fodor 's pessimism as an implicit kind of owning up to this . |
| 14 | A group is a lesser thing than a team , which performs at a higher level of cohesion than a mere group needs to ( see Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 15 | We may , following Hirsch , accept that there is no such thing as a poetic or aesthetic essence ; but we can say that such texts are rewarding when approached in aesthetic terms , or , in Lewis 's words , are read in literary ways . |
| 16 | For the five contracts dealt with in this article , there is no such thing as a ‘ standard ’ agreement . |
| 17 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
| 18 | Above all , remember that there is no such thing as a safe bet . |
| 19 | If any among the new reality seekers had a slightly tougher memory , they would recall that there is no such thing as a happy family . |
| 20 | The problem for the US troops , as in the bombing attacks aimed at Colonel Gadafy 's Libyan regime , is that there is no such thing as a surgical military strike against targets surrounded by civilians , many of them in this case US citizens . |
| 21 | There 's no such thing as a love affair unless there is an exchange . |
| 22 | He is widely credited with coining the phrase ‘ There ai n't no such thing as a free lunch ’ in his novel ‘ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ’ , about a revolution which replaces a command economy with a market economy . |
| 23 | There is probably no such thing as a typical death-bed in any century ; but it is not difficult to take two representative scenarios , separated from one another by about one hundred years . |
| 24 | Of course there is no such thing as a forgery-proof identity card . |
| 25 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . |
| 26 | There 's no such thing as a free lunch . ’ |
| 27 | In examining some of the questions posed , we have to accept that within the UK , and for that matter in most of the rest of the world , there is no such thing as a natural environment . |
| 28 | To me there is no such thing as a holy relic or place . |
| 29 | ‘ There is no such thing as a bloodless insurrection . ’ |
| 30 | Part of the chapter on motivation deals with obesity , and the discussion of theories of why we stuff ourselves is capped by a cartoon in which a chef tells a fat blimp ‘ As far as I know there 's no such thing as a diet cream puff . ’ |