Example sentences of "it is one [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it is one way to increase ( foreign ) investment in the market , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Although it started as a mutation , it is one nature has favoured and which has become established . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is one thing to declare confidently that causal chains exist in the world out there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It is one thing taking a woman into your house , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 21 | But as anyone who has sat on an equal opportunities working party will tell you , it is one thing to formulate policies and quite another to implement them . |
| 22 | But it is one thing to say that the rich , orderly Swedes can put their energy house in order with a minimum of CO 2 . |
| 23 | It is one thing to say we have a goal ; it is another to actually act on it . |
| 24 | It is one thing to say that the understanding of how people order their experience is in contrast to the explanation of how the world works . |
| 25 | It is one thing to say that individual projects failed " against the odds ' ; it is more suspicious if they are always doing so . |
| 26 | It is one thing to say that decisions made by magistrates and judges contribute directly to the crisis by adding to the number of people held in prison at any one time . |
| 27 | But it is one thing to say that once the House of Lords is seised of the case it must resolve all outstanding issues in the appeal itself . |
| 28 | Similarly , while it is true that the military do play a more crucial role than in the past , it is one thing to say this and another to argue that the heads of the four services are in some manner an elite or share similar goals . |
| 29 | It is one thing to leave sociological analysis and instead read a poem ; it is quite another to leave socio-cultural analysis and forthwith adopt a socio-cultural category whose forms and terms ought , precisely , to be the object of analysis . |
| 30 | It is one thing to describe the key role played by rising labour costs and another to explain why they rose . |