Example sentences of "one thing be " in BNC.

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31 One thing is certain , that those of them — priests , prophets or saints — who did so respond , were usually rejected .
32 One thing is for certain .
33 One thing is certain : further changes in the 1990s will reflect the role of the railway as a business out there in a hard , competitive world .
34 One thing is certain .
35 ‘ But one thing is that we have a meeting at 1pm at Nelson 's cottage .
36 The property of being whiter is an obvious example , for one thing is compared with another when we say it is whiter than the other .
37 They may be crowded up against the window of the tour bus or milling together on the pavement , but one thing is for sure — they 're taking snapshots .
38 One thing is certain Sanders … ’ he had said , ‘ you wo n't be coming here … . ’
39 One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot .
40 Whatever the truth of this particular matter , one thing is plain .
41 One thing is for certain , he will continue working in the fantastique .
42 One thing is very probable , though , and that is that the next generation will have no problems in understanding the music of today .
43 One thing is certain and it is this : God weeps inconsolably when man acts foolishly .
44 He knows one thing is certain — Forest will be much more difficult to beat at Wembley than they were against Wednesday , who joined Sheffield United as the only teams to have achieved a double over Forest this season .
45 One thing is certain : having wooed and won passengers , ferry companies are determined to see their relationship outlast the pre-Tunnel honeymoon .
46 No one thing is outstanding , and in that way the cathedral compares somewhat unfavourably with other Milanese churches , the very specific treasures of , say , San Maurizio church do not detract from the sheer majesty of the cathedral .
47 Whichever account is true , one thing is sure , and that is that he was never convicted .
48 I ca n't really remember much B.K. ( before ) and one thing is for sure ; if I ever enter Mastermind , my specialist subject will be ‘ the selected works of the Rev. W. Awdrey ’ .
49 One thing is certain ’ , Ransome wrote to his publisher , Wren Howard ‘ it will mean a fresh lot of lake country Swallows and Amazons ’ .
50 In his opinion , although everything that exists must be like its cause , the fact that one thing is produced by another implies that they are different .
51 I 'm sure it 's difficult for you to imagine what my life is like out here but one thing is certain and that is that there are very few people I can talk to .
52 But one thing is certain — all your household expenses would still have to be met .
53 But one thing is certain — all your household expenses would still have to be met .
54 Only one thing is certain , and that is that if the employee is not consulted , and given an opportunity to state his case , an injustice may be done .
55 One thing is certain though ; if I had to choose between touch legering and swing-tipping for all my fishing , the swing-tip would be second choice .
56 One assumes he also had a Christian name and that his mother loved him , but one thing is certain , nobody else at Binbrook did .
57 One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston .
58 One thing is certain : we can not just amble on and it is going to cost us dearly — £40 000 million according to the National Water Council and others .
59 Only one thing is certain : the search will continue for many years to come .
60 However , one thing is certain : whatever the reason , they do not all return to their former host .
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