Example sentences of "it was one [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er process was er match-guising so it was You know they were list They listened to three different people well th th they thought it was three people it was one person doing three ac the three accents er dialects sorry . |
| 2 | It was one option chosen by Tony Crosland and his advisers from 1965 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was one thing to talk in ambiguous wave/particle terms . |
| 5 | It was one thing to ask for a reference , quite another to throw herself , bag and baggage , on the lady 's mercy ! |
| 6 | And it was one thing to lie , and another to blush . |
| 7 | It was one thing to ease the Shah passing out of Iran , quite another to accord him fill honours on arrival in the United States . |
| 8 | It was one thing to form an intention to compete while employed , but quite another to take active steps to induce other managers to join the competing enterprise and negotiate to deprive the employing company of its best customer . |
| 9 | In Savoy as elsewhere , it was one thing to issue a decree and another to make it effective . |
| 10 | It was one thing to realise the mistake she 'd made and quite another to rectify it . |
| 11 | It was one thing to impoverish his people and terrorize them , even to assassinate his opponents abroad . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | It was one thing to agree that this was desirable , another to agree a measure of need . |
| 14 | It was one thing imagining the scene from the comfort of her London flat but quite another to find herself going through with it . |
| 15 | It was one thing to act as the go-between in the 1970s and to be a successful defrauder of the Americans and other Western states . |
| 16 | It was one thing to lose your husband to another woman — but how could she possibly compete with the manifold attractions of a fax machine ? |
| 17 | It was one thing to lead an alliance of interests and classes for independence , another to run a system consisting of interests and classes in conflict . |
| 18 | After all , it was one thing to show that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes , and sleeping sickness by the tsetse fly , quite another that the common , innocent and friendly house fly was responsible for virtually every other infectious disease known to man . |
| 19 | It was one thing to look , another to call attention to themselves . |
| 20 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 21 | It was one thing to have turned his own country into an ‘ underdeveloping ’ society , but to seek out the company of the other basket-cases of the world economy was to add gratuitous insult to already grave injury in the minds of most Romanians . |
| 22 | It was one thing to have mastered cooking on two electric rings when the boulangerie , charcuterie and épicerie were five minutes distant , quite another to keep a range alight , bake bread and manage slow-cooking food . |
| 23 | It was one thing to suggest that God might have instituted a ‘ law of progress ’ to achieve His goals in Nature , quite another to suggest that human beings were merely highly developed animals . |
| 24 | It was one thing to make the necessary financial decisions , and another to obtain the right candidate for the post . |
| 25 | It was one thing to accept the assumption that the state was the dominant actor , but quite another to agree to how best to explain that unit 's behaviour . |
| 26 | It was one thing behaving in his limp way whenever he himself felt like doing so . |
| 27 | It was one thing to suspect that he might be on a terrorist hit list , and quite another to realize that Asmar 's killers knew where he was . |
| 28 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |