Example sentences of "it was one thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was one thing to back down before the poles . |
| 3 | But it was one thing for James I to have his ideas influenced by Scotland 's natural enemy , England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And it was one thing to lie , and another to blush . |
| 9 | It was one thing to offer hospitality , quite another to extend the boundaries of tolerant understanding to dark moods and sudden rages , even when these could be attributed to horrific experiences in earlier childhood . |
| 10 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was one thing in the 1830s and the 1930s to provide luxuries for a minority , but it was quite a different thing to provide non-essential products at a competitive price for the whole population . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was one thing to impoverish his people and terrorize them , even to assassinate his opponents abroad . |
| 16 | It was one thing to look , another to call attention to themselves . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one thing to challenge it before it set up and another thing once they 'd got going ’ , a member said . |
| 18 | I mean it was one thing standing up in front of my own group and giving a lecture , but it was quite another kettle of kippers doing it in front of a strange class . |
| 19 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was one thing , see , when she had her pride and her strength . |
| 23 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |
| 24 | It was one thing to talk in ambiguous wave/particle terms . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 27 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |
| 28 | It was one thing for his guardian to tell Harry to forget the circumstances of his birth , but would he do so if it meant his beloved daughter had to share that stigma ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was one thing for her to be rude about a fellow female , quite another for a man . |