Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | See there 'd be Amlwch , Rhos- y-Bol , Well now it 's one area see the lot of it . |
| 2 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For it is one thing to deny the significance Marx attaches to alienation as the prime impulse to class struggle ; and quite another to identify it , cleaned of its Hegelian war-paint , as we have identified it already : as the abstraction of one 's working life from a life of one 's own . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is one thing to describe the key role played by rising labour costs and another to explain why they rose . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is one thing to attack the Soviet system or Third World countries not yet under the sway of Western democracies ( and business ) , but it is in these countries that the gospel is spreading like wildfire . |
| 9 | It is one thing to recognize the present weaknesses in financial accountability ; it is another to devote time , money and effort to remedying these defects . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For instance , in the well-known ‘ frogs ’ puzzle , it is one step to say the puzzle can be solved in 15 moves , a further step to produce a general formula for different numbers of frogs , but an even greater step to say why the relationship is quadratic in terms of how the frogs move . |
| 13 | It was one thing to ease the Shah passing out of Iran , quite another to accord him fill honours on arrival in the United States . |
| 14 | It was one thing to realise the mistake she 'd made and quite another to rectify it . |
| 15 | It was one thing imagining the scene from the comfort of her London flat but quite another to find herself going through with it . |
| 16 | It was one thing to make the necessary financial decisions , and another to obtain the right candidate for the post . |
| 17 | It was one thing to accept the assumption that the state was the dominant actor , but quite another to agree to how best to explain that unit 's behaviour . |