Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [det] thing " in BNC.
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1 | Unfortunately , all too often ‘ ideal ’ conditions turn out to be no such thing and the dejected suitor must return home , desire unrequited . |
2 | This assignment that , initially , had seemed simple and straightforward was turning out to be no such thing . |
3 | The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 . |
4 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
5 | This is going to be the same thing , only it will be set in the future . |
6 | But the two sinks the bidet and the toilet , were all like different shades , and you just like , yes , but is this all supposed to be the same thing . |
7 | But to me that has got to be the same thing . |