Example sentences of "to the [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 2 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 3 | How could anything so demonstrably inferior to the real thing ever pretend to be it , and with such potential ( or feared ) success that the parliament of an ‘ advanced western democracy ’ must legislate against it ? |
| 4 | British and Australian substitutes for burgundy began to give place to the real thing . |
| 5 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 6 | ‘ Well ’ — Joe laughed now — ‘ it 'll give me a bit of practice before I 'm introduced to the real thing , and that should n't be long now . ’ |
| 7 | Taut , pacy , absorbing tale of LA street gang life that 's probably as close to the real thing as it 's safe to get . |
| 8 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 9 | For me , Richter and Kondrashin ( on Philips , and recently issued on their new Insignia label at mid-price ) are far closer to the real thing , while for the best among more modern recordings I would suggest Zimerman and Ozawa on DG . |
| 10 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 11 | May the Old Bastard discover that Bosch was not exaggerating , that his Triumph of Death was a pastel cartoon compared to the real thing . |
| 12 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 13 | For an unusual moment Haverford was silent , looking , when it came to the real thing , a little out of his depth . |
| 14 | Pascoe tried out several emotions for that , coming closer to the real thing each time — impatience , irritation , concern , anxiety … |
| 15 | And even all the pretentiousness that 's so horrid next to the real thing — well , it 's better than nothing . |
| 16 | Kathy Rooney stood in for Mr Wogan , and I was a bit tense when it came to the real thing . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's never OK to wear fake fur , it simply encourages aspirations to the real thing and creates a class division of real and fake . |
| 18 | Let us now see how readers react to the real thing . |
| 19 | The substitute is almost identical to the real thing , according to Mitsuru Sakai , the centre 's director . |
| 20 | On sale will be everything from MODELS of luxury cruisers … right up to the real thing . |
| 21 | It 's pretty close to the real thing . |
| 22 | Now Michael has written a new stage play Brother Mine which , as the title suggests , tells of two brothers named Nicky and Freddie whose resemblance to the real thing , as we see as the piece is acted out for Alfred 's approval in the second act . |
| 23 | Supervision is available at many martial arts clubs which , depending on their art , provide a broad spectrum of experience — from the fairly realistic to the actual thing . |
| 24 | Jessamyn was talking to the tall thing . |
| 25 | And it usually leads to the second thing which is to give some testimony . |
| 26 | Which comes on really to the second thing . |
| 27 | Erm , like getting to the right thing |
| 28 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 29 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 30 | There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening . |