Example sentences of "[coord] it be [adj] thing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 2 | And it was one thing to lie , and another to blush . |
| 3 | But it is one thing to say that the rich , orderly Swedes can put their energy house in order with a minimum of CO 2 . |
| 4 | But it is one thing to say that once the House of Lords is seised of the case it must resolve all outstanding issues in the appeal itself . |
| 5 | But it is one thing to thumb your nose at Mr Gorbachev over the Kremlin wall , as many thousands did in a demonstration in Moscow last weekend . |
| 6 | But it is one thing to document the diversity in local authority expenditure and political activity ; it is another to account for its origins and maintenance . |
| 7 | But it is one thing to have sufficient understanding in coming to believe and another to have it in every area of continuing to believe . |
| 8 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
| 9 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 10 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 11 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |