Example sentences of "it be one [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's one way to get rid of it . |
| 2 | Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established . |
| 3 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 4 | It was one thing to have mastered cooking on two electric rings when the boulangerie , charcuterie and épicerie were five minutes distant , quite another to keep a range alight , bake bread and manage slow-cooking food . |
| 5 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |