Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] thing [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one thing to sit in a classroom writing down notes but it 's quite another to come face to face with an armed murderer or a cornered rapist , you mark my words . ’ |
| 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 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 5 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 6 | It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive . |
| 7 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 9 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's one thing legislating , it 's a completely different ball game when you are , erm , trying to enfor enforce it , and especially when you 're trying to enforce it with ingredients imported from abroad . |
| 11 | I think that the computer presents exactly that challenge and amongst the sorts of things I 'm thinking of is that erm it 's one thing to play with a computer toy , a game of some sort — we 've all seen them in the bar and elsewhere — it 's another thing entirely to devise your own game , to program your own rules in and then to bring your friend along and have them challenge it . |
| 12 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 13 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , it 's one thing running along the road before breakfast when you 're twenty is n't it ? |
| 15 | It 's not chicken and egg it 's two things interacting , that 's how history actually operates . |
| 16 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 17 | oh Barbados , but we have to seen if their teletext if they let us do , but I 've just talked to Jamaican people and they said their , their friend he got some contact wanting some order , then later on this lady says no it 's best thing to do go |
| 18 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 19 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 20 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
| 21 | But it is one thing to thumb your nose at Mr Gorbachev over the Kremlin wall , as many thousands did in a demonstration in Moscow last weekend . |
| 22 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 23 | It is one thing to ditch protégés-turned-scoundrels , such as Zaire 's dictator , Mobutu Sese Seko , or Jonas Savimbi of Angola 's UNITA rebels . |
| 24 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is one thing to mistake and misrepresent Jesus , clothed in all his humility as Son of Man ; it is one thing to misread his parabolic teaching , coming as it does in riddles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But of course it is one thing to argue for change , and to explain ( as preceding pages have tried to do ) the readiness and degree of involvement of para.professional colleagues and groups ; it is quite another to analyse in helpful detail the types of learning systems and units that might be relevant , and their implications in terms of planning and organized provision . |