Example sentences of "of thing [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking advantage of the disordered and uncertain state of things it is not surprising that some mineral " owners " felt they ought to have reward for the working of minerals on their land , and there is little doubt that legal issues could and did arise where such " illegal " mining was detected . |
| 2 | According to the hylemorphic theory of the scholastics , each individual thing or substance is a combination of ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) and ‘ form ’ ( morphe ) , and it is because something has the form it has , that it is the kind of thing it is . |
| 3 | It 's the sort of thing it is easy to observe if you stand around in the garage during practice or generally stick around a team , watching who gets the first briefing , who is paying more attention to whom . |
| 4 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 5 | Yeah but I mean that 's , that 's not the thing cos that 's not the sort of thing it is actually for though . |