Example sentences of "[be] [adj] thing for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one thing for a government to look benignly upon — say — a rescue of Ferranti ; or on the swallowing up of much smaller players in the defence business . |
| 2 | It is one thing for a man to yield to his wife under pressure from a spirit , and quite another to be declared a witch . |
| 3 | It is one thing for the Association to demand certain professional standards of its members ( as formulated in the Code of Professional Conduct ) , and to expect them to have loyalty to these rather than to the employer in any dispute , but the professional association itself has to be seen to take a strong stand in support of its membership , or indeed against its membership , if such situations of conflict arise . |
| 4 | It is one thing for the British elector to be told by Brussels where British fishermen can fish , or what sort of sausage he can eat . |
| 5 | It 's one thing for the Independent to accuse Chatto of changing Martin and John to Fucking Martin merely to titillate , which of course no publisher would ever dream of doing , quite another for John Glusman of Farrar , Straus to accuse Jonathan Burnham of mistaking the title of the penultimate chapter for the title of the book as a whole . |
| 6 | Then of course , suggestions was another thing for the improvement in working practices and working conditions . |
| 7 | Parliament was thus taking the marital exemption into realms uncontemplated even by Hale , who believed that it was one thing for a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife without her consent , quite another for him to force her into sexual intercourse with others . |
| 8 | It was one thing for the pale brown islanders to swim in their Mother Hubbards , or often , as I had been told , bare-breasted . |