Example sentences of "thing [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in so doing it can often convey that a past is not a thing to be discovered . |
| 2 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 3 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 4 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 5 | An alcoholic is a pretty unglamorous thing to be , actually . ’ |
| 6 | Stavrogin ca n't , and in our definitive text does n't , claim to be a decent man or to have any other thing to be ; all his letter indicates is a deathlike mime or sleepwalk within behaviour patterns determined by upbringing , class , and kind . |
| 7 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 8 | ‘ We are unilateralist because it is the only sane , only moral and only effective thing to be . |
| 9 | At any rate , if damages are the only thing to be got , your wealthy neighbour might buy the right to annoy you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Everybody was here for the same thing to be done to them . |
| 12 | Parker called for a ‘ United Congregational Church ’ and despite vociferous interruptions from the floor he asked , ‘ Is it really a glorious thing to be absolutely independent of each other ? ’ |
| 13 | The only thing to be said to that was said eight years ago by Michael Kinsley , a Washington journalist , when the Democrats had the same plank in their platform for the American elections . |
| 14 | Then we all started demanding cheap food and the first thing to be sacrificed , along with the freedom of a chicken to scratch for worms , was flavour . |
| 15 | Amanda : What an odd thing to be glad about . |
| 16 | It 's one thing to be seen on the hill , but quite another to be seen and have other climbers throw rocks at you . |
| 17 | Not having taken any spare flies , Mother determined that the only thing to be done , was to get the cast down , somehow . |
| 18 | It 's been no small thing to be simple . |
| 19 | In any study being undertaken , the first thing to be done is the obvious one of finding out what organisations exist and whether they are part of a national body — such as the Women 's Institute , Mothers ' Union , Guides or Scouts — or purely local , such as the Film Club or the Debating Society . |
| 20 | I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax . |
| 21 | It 's not a pleasant thing to be walking up and down those side streets off Soho Square and those neighbourhoods on your own on a dark night in the winter . |
| 22 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 23 | Victory , perhaps to their own surprise , now seemed almost within the invaders ' grasp but at a Council of War , held at the prince 's headquarters in Exeter House , Derby , on the morning of Thursday 5 December , Lord George Murray , whose tactics so far had been masterly , astounded his fellow-commanders by remarking that ‘ the first thing to be spoken of was how far it was prudent to advance further ’ . |
| 24 | Home : Sunninghill Park , Windsor , which is n't quite one 's sort of thing to be honest , and Buck House , SW1 |
| 25 | Oh well , that 's one thing to be thankful for ! |
| 26 | One thing to be grateful about from my point of view … that Yorkies are n't the size of Rottweilers ! |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit . |
| 29 | Lucky thing to be made love to by Drew on it , Daisy was appalled to find herself thinking . |
| 30 | And British too , which , in these trying times , is quite a shit and dangerous thing to be . |