Example sentences of "it be one [noun] [verb] [art] " 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 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 3 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It is one thing taking a woman into your house , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 8 | It is one thing to join an exchange rate mechanism with certain quite wide margins within which the currency can fluctuate , as has been necessary . |
| 9 | It is one thing to describe the key role played by rising labour costs and another to explain why they rose . |
| 10 | I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is one thing to recognize a small dark moving spot , and quite another to recognize that one 's colleague Dr X is in a bad temper , or that there is a car approaching on the wrong side of the road . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is one thing to trust a middle-management appointment to an executive search consultant within a small firm ; it is quite another to trust him or her to find a new group chief executive . |
| 16 | I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , it is one thing to scan a computer screen in the catering office : it 's quite another to do stocktaking — typically this involves carrying a notebook around the various larders and coldrooms . |
| 19 | It is one thing to find a group of ‘ typical teenagers ’ but the ‘ average family ’ can be extraordinarily difficult to put together . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Thus it is one thing to adopt a radically subjectivist posture towards law reform and another thing entirely to purport merely to be describing the law as it is and then to conclude that it is wholly or even primarily subjectivist . |
| 22 | It is one thing cutting a neckline which is on the bias , quite another to cut between stitches for the length of a front . |
| 23 | It is one thing to face a situation alone , quite another to be able to share a burden or the excitement . |
| 24 | It is one thing to distinguish a cuckoo 's egg from those of its host , but quite another to tell apart the eggs of two different starlings . |
| 25 | Finally , however , it has to be conceded that it is one thing to articulate a right of tax-diversion or participation in policy-making , and quite another to secure legal recognition for such a right . |
| 26 | It is one thing to produce an unbiased manuscript which adequately tells the complex factors which contributed to the American disaster that day ; it is quite another to successfully bring the story to life before the cameras . |
| 27 | It is one thing to have a good system in place and then to discover that in practice , on site for example , a different system is used or that there is no system in use . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was one thing to form an intention to compete while employed , but quite another to take active steps to induce other managers to join the competing enterprise and negotiate to deprive the employing company of its best customer . |