Example sentences of "[det] thing as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one well-placed Cabinet source did say privately that he would not put money on it ; there was no such thing as an easy answer to current problems ; and that ERM entry would be tantamount to jumping from ‘ the puddle and into the pond ’ . |
| 2 | There is no such thing as an international patent , so it is essential to register a product under the laws of each country in which it will be sold . |
| 3 | ‘ There is no such thing as an accident , ’ replied Tock . |
| 4 | The fact is that there is no such thing as an ‘ independent ’ central bank . |
| 5 | Whereas Bismarck had wanted constantly to reassure the other countries of Europe that Germany was satiated , and wanted to act as an honest broker between East and West ( his banker , Bleichröder , tartly remarked that there is no such thing as an honest broker ) , Wilhelmine Germany decided to make a bid for power in competition nth the other great powers , chiefly Britain . |
| 6 | And by the same token , there is no such thing as an author , that is to say , one who originates a work of fiction ab nihilo . |
| 7 | There is no such thing as an objective fact . |
| 8 | There 's no such thing as an ‘ external vagina ’ . |
| 9 | Experts agree that there 's no such thing as an ‘ orthopaedic ’ bed — most are simply very , very firm which , far from curing a back problem , could actually aggravate it . |
| 10 | We can be well aware in the abstract of the horror , misery and emptiness of much of life , but is there any such thing as an intense imaginative vision of life , however pessimistic , which is not in some sense pleasing ? |
| 11 | Moreover , in his opinion , there is no such thing as an open system . |
| 12 | Wendler concludes ‘ there is no such thing as an open system in 1992 , ’ and that for users , the economic benefits of going open systems have so far been only ‘ anecdotal . ’ |
| 13 | Yet in industrial goods markets there may be no such thing as an average consumer ; each buyer 's demand pattern and requirement may be different . |
| 14 | In the real world there is undoubtedly no such thing as an organization of any size or substance that can say , All my data lives in one source . |
| 15 | Castells challenged this , arguing that there was , in fact , no such thing as an ‘ urban ’ sociology . |
| 16 | I 'd just like to pick up the point that 's been made twice that there 's no such thing as an affordable housing problem . |
| 17 | In his appendix to the History of Edinburgh Arnot states that in 1763 there was no such thing as an umbrella known or used in Edinburgh . |
| 18 | there , there 's no such thing as an absolute mass line , the mass line in particular two types of people . |
| 19 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 20 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 21 | It simply was n't the same thing as an investment proposal from a friend . |
| 22 | Er y your use of the phrase self containment leads me to ask the question , which is that , well in my book it does n't necessarily mean the same thing as an integrated and balanced community , but I 'll put Mr Davis on notice to define what is meant by those adjectives . |