Example sentences of "it [be] [adj] thing to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is one thing to say we have a goal ; it is another to actually act on it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is one thing to say that individual projects failed " against the odds ' ; it is more suspicious if they are always doing so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |