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

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1 It does n't matter whether it 's one pizza shared out between three of us or as we tried earlier two shared out between six of us .
2 However , we 'll see about that — it 's one thing jumping well in your own gym , but it 's another one altogether doing it in a stadium — in a championship — with thousands of people looking at you .
3 Now it 's one thing to say well , you know , perhaps these are women who take more exception than other women would do , but there comes a point where you have to accept , I think , that there 's going to be a shift of perspective , that what women have customarily put up with is no longer what they wish to put up and that I think we ought to be , as it were , acknowledged to have the right or the scope to say we want things to change , and to define or to set out in a process of defining what should be sexual appropriate sexual behaviour in future .
4 It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive .
5 It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there .
6 It is one thing to move out — not to be able to move back in because one 's place has been usurped is quite another .
7 Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so .
8 It is one thing climbing up a steep and slippery slope with no weight on your back , and altogether a different thing climbing up with 40kg of camera equipment .
9 He knew himself that it is one thing to get out of prison , another really to escape it .
10 It was one thing to talk tritely about holding life in our hands ; it was a very different matter to find oneself on the point of doing just that .
11 It was one thing living dangerously , quite another encouraging other people to do so , putting their lives at risk … putting her mother 's life at risk …
12 It was one thing to boast afterwards of pre-breakfast hiking , quite another to be actually seen leading this freak of nature , this abortion , about the public streets .
13 I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class .
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