Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 2 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 3 | It is one thing to say that individual projects failed " against the odds ' ; it is more suspicious if they are always doing so . |
| 4 | Similarly , while it is true that the military do play a more crucial role than in the past , it is one thing to say this and another to argue that the heads of the four services are in some manner an elite or share similar goals . |
| 5 | It is one thing to leave sociological analysis and instead read a poem ; it is quite another to leave socio-cultural analysis and forthwith adopt a socio-cultural category whose forms and terms ought , precisely , to be the object of analysis . |
| 6 | It is one thing to help those who are in special difficulties , or in real need . |
| 7 | It is one thing to study these topics and to then be able as a result to answer conventional questions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |