Example sentences of "it be another thing [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
2 | ‘ One can have a great concern for the people of Ethiopia , bit it 's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England . |
3 | ‘ It is another thing taking her family . ’ |
4 | 3 It is one thing to recognise the limited possibilities of insurrection in Britain , but it is another thing to move from this into support for the Labour Party . |
5 | It is one thing to exclude cases like Ibrams from the defence — the gap of some five days between provocation and killing savours of considered revenge ; it is another thing to exclude defendants with slow-burning temperaments , who do not react straight away to an insult or wrong , but go away and then react after hours of festering anger . |