Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It is one thing to mistake and misrepresent Jesus , clothed in all his humility as Son of Man ; it is one thing to misread his parabolic teaching , coming as it does in riddles .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is one thing to say that the understanding of how people order their experience is in contrast to the explanation of how the world works .
6 It is one thing to say that decisions made by magistrates and judges contribute directly to the crisis by adding to the number of people held in prison at any one time .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 It is one thing to determine that better use could be made of staff , it is another to change the existing situation .
10 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 .
11 It is one thing to recognise that the interests of producers and consumers are likely to be opposed : for the first will wish to sell at the highest , the second to buy at the lowest price .
12 It is one thing to assert that things are ‘ not what they used to be ’ and that this is part of the more ‘ general malaise ’ in society .
13 It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum .
14 It was one thing to agree that this was desirable , another to agree a measure of need .
15 After all , it was one thing to show that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes , and sleeping sickness by the tsetse fly , quite another that the common , innocent and friendly house fly was responsible for virtually every other infectious disease known to man .
16 It was one thing to suggest that God might have instituted a ‘ law of progress ’ to achieve His goals in Nature , quite another to suggest that human beings were merely highly developed animals .
17 It was one thing to suspect that he might be on a terrorist hit list , and quite another to realize that Asmar 's killers knew where he was .
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