Example sentences of "thing be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , PICK-UP2 , HE1 , and JACK2 are word senses , GRASP , MAN , and THING are additional definitional information , and AGENT and OBJECT are semantic cases . |
| 2 | Among the performers who will be appearing in this year 's Spring Thing are 18-year-old Lynn Tocker , the Hokum Hotshots , Beggars Velvet and Whippersnapper . |
| 3 | And if this is so we get the delightful result that instead of there being at least two radically different sorts of things in the world , sensory states and material objects , there is only one sort of thing , sensory states , and all putatively other sorts of thing are reducible to complexes of actual and possible things of the first sort . |
| 4 | Having lived for 20 years in a country in which the dominant religion was Buddhism , I thank God for the Buddha 's inspiration : ‘ Now may every living being , young or old , weak or strong , living near or far , known or unknown , living or departed or yet unborn , may every living thing be full of bliss . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I used to think that horoscopes and all that sort of thing were sheer hocus-pocus . |
| 6 | Oh I used to think ‘ how beautiful ’ if such a thing were possible , but I had no idea that such love was thought vile . |
| 7 | In any case , all of these uses evoke the speaker 's view of the possibility of someone being so audacious as to perform the event denoted by the infinitive , and all imply a negative prejudice against such a thing being possible . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 9 | It 's one thing being able to break the minute barrier for 100 metres freestyle but quite another to have the courage and know-how to rescue someone in distress . |
| 10 | But one thing 's clearer than this glass of gin — |
| 11 | Aye , which thing 's that ? |
| 12 | Your Walkman , your thing 's winding . |
| 13 | No Richard because the whole thing can fall through when we have our survey done it might show a defect or something , we might pull out , when they have their survey done it might show a defect so they might pull out , you do n't do anything Richard until the contracts have been exchanged , then you can start saying right I think that 's , that 's , every thing 's definite |
| 14 | ‘ This thing 's heavier than I thought , ’ puffed Dad as his young son looked on . |
| 15 | But the re th the actual thing 's free . |
| 16 | It 's for each person , that 's why like the playwright does n't specify what each thing 's supposed to mean because it can mean whatever it wants to each member of the audience . |
| 17 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 18 | There 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through , an awful lot of people to see , an awful lot of red tape really to get through , first , I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards . |
| 19 | Does that mean your eleven thing 's wrong ? |
| 20 | That , that sort of thing 's important because it gives , it gives , it then builds up original |
| 21 | One is the spot checks themselves to make sure that everything is right , the other is to show the commitment to people like you that this thing 's important . |
| 22 | Wendy : ‘ This whole thing is pathetic , that 's my problem ’ — could take the shine off one of the highlights of Kylie 's career . |
| 23 | Whichever account is true , one thing is sure , and that is that he was never convicted . |
| 24 | But one thing is sure . |
| 25 | One thing is sure . |
| 26 | One thing is sure . |
| 27 | One thing is sure of . |
| 28 | President , Congress , whatever happens over the next few years , one thing is sure , the environment is here to stay . |
| 29 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 30 | That was , thing is that was quite a long time ago . |