Example sentences of "be a [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright , if an innovation comes onto the market that enables a farmer to increase his output , alright , if that er , innovations that lies , lies outside of erm , sort of orthodox or traditional methods there may be a psychological resistance to actually adopting it simply because we 're a newfangled thing ooh , I , I do n't know how it 's going to , how it 's going to work . |
| 2 | She said unless it , like with , with that doll she 's bought Carla she said they 're a good thing for collectors for her . |
| 3 | As I 've , I mean divisional guidelines forthrising costing I 've added to the related documents and I 'll produce those because they 're a divisional thing . |
| 4 | It had been a close thing . |
| 5 | Erm me , myself and Steve are currently working on er , health and safety for contractors coming on site purpose to work etcetera and one of reasons why well he than ever before on this , visi visitor 's information when they 're on site on the back of cars it would , it would have been a nice thing to do would have been to have joined the whole lot together . |
| 6 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 7 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 8 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 9 | Well I 'd like to speak about the gallery I like to speak for myself and er just the visual arts and er the gallery when it first started was a gallery very much appreciated by appreciated by the Eastern Region er they saw it as potential a very significant gallery in the whole region which would have been a marvellous thing for Harlow to have . |
| 10 | It had been a stupid thing to do , on that day of all days . |
| 11 | It had been a stupid thing to say . |
| 12 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 13 | It would have been a casual thing and not with anyone who was camp , like him . |
| 14 | Leibniz would have been little more than an impressionable fool in Kant 's eyes had the caterpillar that he treated with such consideration been a mere thing . |
| 15 | And if you , if you do n't do that , many people will pick it up and say , you know , ‘ There 's been a new thing , what the hell , I do n't see how I can use it , ’ into the wastepaper basket . |
| 16 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 17 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 18 | I 've just had to get on with it , and that 's been a good thing . ’ |
| 19 | But , gentlemen , of this I am certain , the Conservative Party has been a good thing for this country and it is our business today , and as long as we can , to keep that Party solid ; and if splits must come , to delay them as long as we possibly can ( Applause ) . |
| 20 | Driving to the sterilised zone in which the malais had reconstructed a thatched Danuese village complete with miniature ricebarns , one of the two Americans turned and said to me : ‘ Sir , tell me , truly , do you think the Integration has been a good thing for your country ? ’ |
| 21 | Their formation has been a good thing . |
| 22 | It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside . |
| 23 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 24 | Her looks and her vibrant personality had always won the day for her — but perhaps in the long run that had n't been a good thing , because now those weapons had failed her she was floundering , rudderless . |
| 25 | They had a fire at Saint Leonards and they 've been saying that really it 's been a good thing . |
| 26 | Your own , personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
| 28 | Whatever it was that had happened between Richard Ward and his wife , it must have been a bad thing because , to Beth 's mind , it had brought nothing good . |
| 29 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
| 30 | Which , to Charles ' mind , would n't have been a bad thing . |