Example sentences of "it is one thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put against open window giving onto garden full of trees and it is one thing . |
| 2 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 3 | It is one thing for a government to look benignly upon — say — a rescue of Ferranti ; or on the swallowing up of much smaller players in the defence business . |
| 4 | It is one thing to ask whether Mr Lawson 's chosen strategy of maintaining a ‘ firm ’ exchange rate and slowing the growth of demand will produce good long-term results . |
| 5 | It is one thing for dissident ministers to buck Cabinet responsibility and risk the sack . |
| 6 | It is one thing to demand efficiency and the just use of public resources ; it is quite another to impose conditions where the universities can not provide what the nation requires . |
| 7 | It is one thing to win the support of electors by defeating an enemy for the first time ; it is quite another to expect admiration for slaying the same dragon twice . |
| 8 | At this point Callinicos has to be careful : it is one thing to dismiss the claims of a rootless postmodernism , wandering naked except for its designer trainers across the face of a barren late capitalism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |
| 12 | It is one thing to maintain that victims of sexual assault have in the past suffered oppressive questioning by the police and oppressive cross-examination in court . |
| 13 | It is one thing to recognize a small dark moving spot , and quite another to recognize that one 's colleague Dr X is in a bad temper , or that there is a car approaching on the wrong side of the road . |
| 14 | It is one thing to observe defects , quite another to propose satisfactory remedies . |
| 15 | It is one thing to hope for someone to come when things are civilised , when there are other people around too . |
| 16 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The grounds for arrest It is one thing to identify the crimes for which an arrest is now possible ; it is another to say when such arrests may lawfully take place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is one thing to make students aware of the literature in their subject through a structured but indigestible literature guide , but quite another to assist them in selecting the literature they would be best advised to consult . |
| 23 | It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise . |
| 24 | It is one thing to say we have a goal ; it is another to actually act on it . |
| 25 | It is one thing to face a situation alone , quite another to be able to share a burden or the excitement . |
| 26 | But it is one thing for us to know that a person needs God 's conviction and another thing to say so to him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is one thing to realize that our faith will always be weaker than we would like it to be , but it is quite another to insist that our faith must be weaker than it can afford to be . |
| 29 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 30 | It is one thing to study these topics and to then be able as a result to answer conventional questions . |