Example sentences of "[adj] a thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this a thing you wo n't like about it , is that if you 've got er , thirteen columns and ten rows , that means you have to create hundred and thirty range names , which you wo n't enjoy doing . |
| 2 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 3 | One reason given was ‘ to teach that there is no place void of Divine Presence , even so lowly a thing as a bush ’ ( Mishnah , Exodus Rabbah , II , 5 , quoted in Cohen , 1949 : 9 ) . |
| 4 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 5 | And er you know , the different er things they can tell you just how l old a thing th And then I think they were the sort of the fashion Er you know they were first in the fashion trade to introduce these sort of things you know . |
| 6 | The idea that there is such a thing as the spirit of a time can be awkwardly challenged by asking , ‘ Whose time ? ’ |
| 7 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 8 | But there really is such a thing as overtime for long days . |
| 9 | And how better would a kidnapper do such a thing than to send a letter by his Majesty 's Mail . |
| 10 | All must be equally under suspicion , though we all know the master or mistress would never think of doing such a thing . ’ |
| 11 | And if the answer was yes , would such a thing happen ? |
| 12 | ‘ I still do n't understand how you could do such a thing , ’ Michael complained . |
| 13 | And with the young doctor who tries to help Raskolnikov , the voice of the underground man has become more accessibly funny : ‘ I admit there 's scarcely such a thing as a normal human being . |
| 14 | The plot , should there be such a thing , thickens as Fleeting has consistently put more cash on the table than his opponent . |
| 15 | With heroic individual exceptions , both the Protestant and Catholic churches supported Hitler and , in East Germany in particular , were determined that such a thing should never happen again . |
| 16 | Some may indeed dream of a united Germany : few believe it is politic to speak or even think of such a thing . |
| 17 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 18 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 19 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 20 | I do n't believe there is such a thing as being able to stop a business in its tracks and say that 's far enough . |
| 21 | Yet people acted as though there was such a thing and this illusion was essential both for the working of capitalism and for the acceptability of the exploitation on which capitalism was based . |
| 22 | ‘ How can you say such a thing ? |
| 23 | This did not mean that he was above sacrificing aesthetic principle — if there is such a thing , and if he had it — to the purely partisan pleasures of Morte aux païens . |
| 24 | The British Legion 's advertising campaign with jackbooted Germans marching in front of Parliament preys on our fears and offers a solution — namely we 've got to be armed to our teeth to prevent such a thing from happening . |
| 25 | Today , it is no longer possible to imagine such a thing happening . |
| 26 | Take a sergeant with you , assuming there is such a thing left in the building . ’ |
| 27 | Oh I used to think ‘ how beautiful ’ if such a thing were possible , but I had no idea that such love was thought vile . |
| 28 | Is there not such a thing as pity ? |
| 29 | Is there such a thing as a ‘ criterion ’ of truth ? |
| 30 | In the Dialogues Berkeley shows awareness of the possible accusation of unfair dealing : he admits ‘ spiritual substance ; although [ we ] … have no idea of it ’ , while he denies that ‘ there can be such a thing as material substance , because [ we ] … have no notion or idea of it ’ . |