Example sentences of "[is] this [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.

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1 Okay so they 're reactive erm Is this a good thing this radioactivity ?
2 I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever .
3 But is this a good thing ?
4 Is this a sacred thing , that I can only go forward ?
5 In Bolingbroke 's terms such an act would warrant the conclusion that the government is not a good one ; is this the same thing ?
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