Example sentences of "it [be] [num] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was fifty , it 's thirty minutes to do the run , you only wanted a bus to repeat itself every forty minutes , so you got ten minutes to waste . |
| 2 | But you see if you take a car it 's eight pound to park a car . |
| 3 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 4 | Well , it 's one way to get rid of it . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive . |
| 10 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 14 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 15 | We 're doing refreshments and it 's twenty pence to come in . |
| 16 | She said if I send it back it 's gon na be nineteen pa it 's seven pound to get a thing back ! |
| 17 | ‘ I think it is one way to increase ( foreign ) investment in the market , ’ he said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is one thing to ask whether Mr Lawson 's chosen strategy of maintaining a ‘ firm ’ exchange rate and slowing the growth of demand will produce good long-term results . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |