Example sentences of "[adj] thing was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one interesting thing was the girl . |
| 2 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 3 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 4 | The one good thing was the Australian pair finally making up their minds to come , the wife 's partners having agreed to her taking up to a year 's sabbatical . |
| 5 | ‘ The only good thing was the scenery and the fact that the four-letter words had been cut . |
| 6 | And the odd thing was the effluent looked better the worse it was . |
| 7 | The most pertinent thing was the advent of Arthur Harris as the new C-in-C , His arrival at " The Petrified Forest " ( Bomber Command HO ) coincided with the publication of the Butt Report — one of the most deadly denunciations of the only serious offensive we were able to mount against the enemy . |
| 8 | The only clean new thing was the dog basket in the corner . |
| 9 | In the case which we are examining , that external thing was the dominant male member of the reproductive group of the foraging hominids — Freud 's primal father . |
| 10 | So erm and the other thing was the erm the maternity bill er what is the other one that so interests me that , I 've got my two favourites , erm and that is the cervical , the cancer smear test . |
| 11 | And the other thing was the Brekanil |
| 12 | I think our crucial criticism of the whole press release was that the , it was that the good news , if you like , that the council were doing something pro-active about food poisoning came secondary , was a secondary issue in the press release , the main , the main thing was the bad news , and it could have been turned round . |
| 13 | Assistant manager Tony Mcandrew said : ‘ I thought we thoroughly deserved the points , and the most pleasing thing was the clean sheet . |
| 14 | The whole thing was a cod . ’ |
| 15 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 16 | According to the Sunday Times , ‘ A Government Minister has implied that their [ the people of the area ] problems are imaginary or psychosomatic and a senior Whitehall official has suggested that the whole thing was a ‘ hoax ’ , devised to thwart the Government 's privatisation plans . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 18 | Gasworks Olympic contenders … oh , Jeez , Nutty thought : something would just have to turn up , or else the whole thing was a dead duck . |
| 19 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 20 | This whole thing was a nightmare , a sea monster inextricably wrapped around her limbs which would be with her until the day she died . |
| 21 | My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake . |
| 22 | People who attended were , by and large , enthusiastic about the show but to us the whole thing was a nightmare , says O'Dalaigh . |
| 23 | The whole thing was a Commie frame-up . |
| 24 | I turned to give the small lady an outsize in winks , as though the whole thing was a conspiracy , which it was , and she was n't included , which she was n't . |
| 25 | The whole thing was a total bloody fiasco . |
| 26 | It was impossible to suspend one 's belief — and what with the audience jeering and throwing peanuts , the whole thing was a disaster ! — he did nothing but cry all the time — right out of character — just stood there and cried … |
| 27 | She chuckled , as though the whole thing was a huge joke . |
| 28 | ‘ The whole thing was a perfectly natural mistake , but , thanks to him , they went on as if I 'd just attempted to rob the Bank of England . |
| 29 | The whole thing was a sort of ritual , with the same motions performed night after night . |
| 30 | The whole thing was a botch job , but these clandestine organisations are just as capable of making a balls-up as — ’ |