Example sentences of "it [be] one thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you . |
| 2 | It 's one thing to be seen on the hill , but quite another to be seen and have other climbers throw rocks at you . |
| 3 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 4 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 5 | It 's one thing if you 're fully staffed but if you think that whichever of my boys is on guard duty for the day is responsible for the shopping as well as the cooking , and I have to put another boy on guard as substitute to him and another at the disposition of the local magistrate , and I 've two out on motor-bike patrol — where am I when a case like this comes up and I 've got to be out ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 7 | In other words , it 's one thing to stealthily infiltrate the mainstream ; another to write a song George Bush could smilingly applaud at some godawful Super Bowl pageant . |
| 8 | It 's one thing that we 're always really conscious of , that it must never affect us like that because no matter how big you become you must always be the same person . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 10 | It 's one thing for the Independent to accuse Chatto of changing Martin and John to Fucking Martin merely to titillate , which of course no publisher would ever dream of doing , quite another for John Glusman of Farrar , Straus to accuse Jonathan Burnham of mistaking the title of the penultimate chapter for the title of the book as a whole . |
| 11 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 12 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 13 | You see it 's one thing for Jesus to say that it 's another for us to believe it and accept it . |
| 14 | It 's one thing to be a porter who is a bit , you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 16 | It 's one thing being able to break the minute barrier for 100 metres freestyle but quite another to have the courage and know-how to rescue someone in distress . |
| 17 | I mean it 's one thing |
| 18 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's one thing that er we have to reem reemphasize to people and usually I do it on the phone , that if people have got businesses erm the way look at it there 's such a commitment by this company |
| 20 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 21 | It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive . |
| 22 | So it 's one thing plus it 's the in this case it 's iron plus oxygen gives iron oxide . |
| 23 | it 's one thing being in a hospital but to take her somewhere |
| 24 | I mean , it 's one thing running along the road before breakfast when you 're twenty is n't it ? |
| 25 | One minute it 's one thing , and then it 's another ! |
| 26 | Well it 's one thing to t to talk amongst your friends I suppose , and another one to be you know spontaneous when you 're in front of a huge crowd of people . |
| 27 | Well it 's one thing I mean it 's right here have n't I ? |
| 28 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 29 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 30 | No , I 'm not suggesting it , but erm I think it 's one thing that erm will prolong the war . |