Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It is one thing to determine that better use could be made of staff , it is another to change the existing situation . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It was one thing to agree that this was desirable , another to agree a measure of need . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |