Example sentences of "it [vb -s] good thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 2 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 3 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 4 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 5 | It has good things about Gore , about Hoskyns , about Temple . |