Example sentences of "it is [art] good thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | To stroll into reality , the detail of it and the context , to unravel and to uncover it is a better thing than to sprint past , reading the billboards of science . ’ |
| 2 | Similarly , to look at our activity in the self-reflective consciousness provided by ‘ theory ’ can be salutary ; it is a good thing to know what we are doing , and , if possible , why . |
| 3 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 4 | Chemistry has to look to its public image — people are not certain whether it is a good thing or not . |
| 5 | The political parties each have a different vision of precisely what citizenship involves but they are all broadly agreed that it is a good thing and agree in general terms at least on its basic ingredients . |
| 6 | Intensification is a good thing , perhaps overdoing it , but it is a good thing . |
| 7 | It is a good thing to stop coffee anyway from a general health point of view but the benefits of this would only be apparent from a long term change , not just for a few days . |
| 8 | ( Given the vigour of Victorian excavation techniques and the complexity of the Stonehenge stratigraphy , it is a good thing he refused ! ) |
| 9 | Second , it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to work for the military . |
| 10 | We put it in the grammatically imperative mood in order to show up starkly its difference from factual statements , but also to leave room to interpret it according to circumstances as the strong ‘ One ought to be aware of this ’ , or as ‘ It is a good thing to be aware of this ’ , or in diminishing degrees , as the prospect of something coming within one 's range of choice becomes remote , ‘ Other things being equal , it is better to be aware of it than not ’ . |
| 11 | Bishop Konstant told the TV reporter : ‘ It is an area where there are great needs , as there are in many parts of Leeds , great social needs — but I think the publicity it has been getting recently is quite unbalanced and it is a good thing to see another side to it . |
| 12 | It is a good thing that Graham Gooch 's integrity is beyond reproach , because anyone not knowing the full story might feel that something somewhere was not quite right ! |
| 13 | we are safe , but I am not sure that it is a good thing on the whole . |
| 14 | The most significant — and debatable — belief about science , however , is that it is a good thing in itself . |
| 15 | It is a good thing that I am a reasonable man . |
| 16 | " It is a good thing you addressed me so politely , or I should have eaten you . |
| 17 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 18 | It is a good thing . |
| 19 | Er it is a good thing as a health thing because they , at home they did n't get the company . |
| 20 | The Workers ' Birth Control Group was anxious to show that women were not going to renege on motherhood if they were permitted easier access to birth control information : ‘ the committee of this organisation consists of married women who have children , and they are not in any way out to say it is a good thing not to have children ’ . |
| 21 | Well that has changed a lot now and I think it i it , it is a good thing as well . |
| 22 | But it is a good thing that we shall have an interval away from each other . |
| 23 | ‘ Tuan , ’ I said , very slow and serious , too , ‘ it is a good thing , but the cost has been high . ’ |
| 24 | In itself in providing a greater degree of traffic relief Yes it I mean it is a good thing , it is a plus point . |
| 25 | I think if anything can stop some of the things happening to youngsters that have been this year then it is a good thing . |
| 26 | It is a good thing he practises what he preaches . |
| 27 | And the N U S , you know it is , in a way it is a good thing but in a way it is n't because when they were actual when they actually belonged to the N U S erm they were n't get because it 's a small university , they were n't getting much funding from the US er the N U S or erm any support really . |
| 28 | Well maybe it is a good thing , yeah . |
| 29 | The erm what we 've not erm what has not been er challenged is the argument that it is a good thing for North Yorkshire and for the region and for the United Kingdom and possibly for the European Union , that footloose inward investment , sorry footloose investment , of erm strategic importance should erm be capable of being attracted to this county . |
| 30 | Can you tell me a bit about how it 's changed and whether it is a good thing for Oxford Cheetahs . |