Example sentences of "it [be] one [noun] [verb] " 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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Well , it 's one way to get rid of it . |
| 4 | It 's one metre cubed , it 's one point eight , erm , er , but , do n't know actually , I 'd rather have it in centimetres . |
| 5 | Er er er it 's it 's one magnet working a against another . |
| 6 | It 's just it 's just a number be because it 's one length divided by another . |
| 7 | See there 'd be Amlwch , Rhos- y-Bol , Well now it 's one area see the lot of it . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it 's one thing to foresee , say , which horse is going to win the Derby . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's one thing to take along another veterinary surgeon and quite another to be always accompanied by a nurse , however attractive . |
| 14 | It 's one thing to have an assistant , another to feel one is being taken over . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's one thing to have brain-dead clerks amplified to efficiency . |
| 16 | I mean it 's one thing letting the committee know for their records or something . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's one thing to possess great technical ability and knowledge , and quite another to actually play a song with conviction and emotion ! |
| 20 | ‘ Let me warn you , my boy — it 's one thing to look like a donkey , but much easier to act like one . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , it 's one thing running along the road before breakfast when you 're twenty is n't it ? |
| 22 | ‘ I think it is one way to increase ( foreign ) investment in the market , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established . |
| 24 | If the child gives a written statement to the social worker , the statement itself is first-hand hearsay as it is one stage removed from the child who could give direct evidence of the abuse . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 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 . |