Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] [adj] thing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's quite another thing to foresee what 's going to happen , and then deliberately to prevent its happening . |
| 2 | It 's quite another thing to share a summit with 60 people who express disappointment that there is no hot-dog stand . |
| 3 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 4 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 5 | It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance . |
| 6 | But it is quite another thing to go on to suggest that such a minority therefore possesses no political rights , or should be deprived of those which it holds equally with all other citizens . |
| 7 | But it is quite another thing to see the truth clearly and wilfully to reject it ; quite another thing to ascribe the power of the Holy Spirit to the devil — which is what the scribes were doing . |
| 8 | It is quite another thing to suggest that it is therefore proper to place higher burdens of proof on defendants , and to restrict the presentation of the defence . |
| 9 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 10 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 11 | It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The girl , who has now left school , said : ‘ I think it was very stupid thing to do . |