Sentence examples for thing in theory from inspiring English sources

That's a good thing — in theory.

Everyone thinks rape is a bad thing in theory, but real-life cases are very different.

A fixed-price menu is a comfortable and attractive thing, in theory.

Which is a very good thing in theory, but not when you are being drenched every second of the day.

This is a good thing, in theory, though it may have helped to suppress some of the fuel-saving motivation I usually feel in a hybrid car.

While that's no bad thing in theory, in practice it has led to a complex collection of sub-brands and an overwhelming array of products on the shop floor.

If you could, keep a diary – write down if it is impacting your enjoyment of cakes or sexual things; in theory it could," she says.

Mrs Thatcher did the easy ones first … And if you look at things like the police, Post Office, health, education, welfare services, all of those things – in theory, all of that could be outsourced.

If nanotechnologists could make animated robot-like things, in theory these "robots" (the one below is shown on the head of a pin) would be the right size to wander around the body delivering drugs, patching up diseased cells, or killing off cancerous cells.

As with the theory of communitarian democracy that was "the next big thing" in democratic theory a decade ago, noble ideas have a way of bouncing off the deeply ingrained habits of American political life.

"We want things that, in theory, are low in cost and make reasonable power demands, that might even run on batteries or solar power," he said.