Example sentences of "[adj] thing to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's another thing to be a porter whose friend has A-I-D-S . |
| 2 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 3 | But another thing to be shown how to do it and that 's what , really what we want to try and do for the rest of the talk is to not just keep preaching at you and telling you what to do , but to show you how , so that 's the purpose of the talk from now on , now in this outline there are , I 've got about fourteen different points here and it 'll highlight ways in which we can er stay awake , what I 'm going to do is to read straight through them and then we 'll go back and pick a couple out , because it 's impossible to concentrate on the entire er amount , so we 'll do that , it 's er a number of things we can do to keep virtually awake keep up with the food at the proper time from Jehovah 's organizations that 's studying and things like that is n't it ? |
| 4 | And British too , which , in these trying times , is quite a shit and dangerous thing to be . |
| 5 | Then he suddenly burst out : " It must be a fine thing to be God ! |
| 6 | Annabel Hogan walked around her house : there was always some little thing to be done . |
| 7 | But it 's only by sort of putting it out like this and thinking yes , the media wants to talk about this , talk about that , talk about the other , you know , they are in this case the most , the likely thing to be adding to the problem . |
| 8 | Lucky thing to be made love to by Drew on it , Daisy was appalled to find herself thinking . |
| 9 | At twenty five this is a very hard thing to be told . |
| 10 | ‘ We are unilateralist because it is the only sane , only moral and only effective thing to be . |
| 11 | I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax . |
| 12 | We put it in the grammatically imperative mood in order to show up starkly its difference from factual statements , but also to leave room to interpret it according to circumstances as the strong ‘ One ought to be aware of this ’ , or as ‘ It is a good thing to be aware of this ’ , or in diminishing degrees , as the prospect of something coming within one 's range of choice becomes remote , ‘ Other things being equal , it is better to be aware of it than not ’ . |
| 13 | It is often a good thing to be somewhat anarchic , never rigid in your opinions , and always open to new ideas if you want to be a planner . |
| 14 | I think chemistry and physics students are quite a good thing to be at the moment . |
| 15 | it 's erm a good thing to be doing . |
| 16 | So it 's a it 's a good thing to be able to attract inward investment of that quality and significance . |
| 17 | It 's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit . |
| 18 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 19 | ‘ But it 's a terrible thing to be out of friends with your own flesh and blood , ’ Julia mourned . |
| 20 | ‘ And is n't it a terrible thing to be bringing even more trouble down upon my head ? |
| 21 | ‘ The great thing to be in East Germany right now , ’ Scott-Scobie announced . |
| 22 | He was also the son of a builder which was n't a particularly great thing to be in , be in England which is , you know considerably more snobby than , you know |
| 23 | Perhaps the most important thing to be remarked about them is that their numbers are very small and that almost all of them are men . |
| 24 | An alcoholic is a pretty unglamorous thing to be , actually . ’ |
| 25 | Yet it is one thing to be abandoned by the God of our forefathers and another is to be abandoned by God the inventor of a cosmic computer . |
| 26 | It 's one thing to be seen on the hill , but quite another to be seen and have other climbers throw rocks at you . |
| 27 | Oh well , that 's one thing to be thankful for ! |
| 28 | One thing to be grateful about from my point of view … that Yorkies are n't the size of Rottweilers ! |
| 29 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 30 | It had been one thing to be suddenly full of Dutch courage at the thought that Freddie Nash , having seen Eleanor again , had decided to seek her out . |