Example sentences of "it be one [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 . |