Example sentences of "it be quite [det] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite another thing to share a summit with 60 people who express disappointment that there is no hot-dog stand . |
| 2 | And it 's quite another thing to foresee what 's going to happen , and then deliberately to prevent its happening . |
| 3 | It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted . |
| 4 | It is quite another thing to suggest that it is therefore proper to place higher burdens of proof on defendants , and to restrict the presentation of the defence . |
| 5 | Another argument I must meet is that while it is one thing to tolerate behaviour and remove criminal sanctions , in this case concerning homosexual activities , it is quite another thing to facilitate and give recognition to unions built on such activities . |
| 6 | It is quite another thing , however , to find out what they are . |
| 7 | It is quite another thing to assess how out of balance the individual is and how to set about restoring the balance . |
| 8 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 9 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 10 | But it is quite another thing to go on to suggest that such a minority therefore possesses no political rights , or should be deprived of those which it holds equally with all other citizens . |
| 11 | It is one thing to speak of involving the student , " teaching concepts rather than facts " , " practising skills " and all the other catch phrases of educational discourse ; it is quite another thing to put them into practice , to find out how to involve the student , to elucidate which concepts are of most importance and which facts are necessary to their understanding , and particularly to distinguish which are the key skills and how they are to be most usefully practised with these students in this situation . |
| 12 | But it is quite another thing to see the truth clearly and wilfully to reject it ; quite another thing to ascribe the power of the Holy Spirit to the devil — which is what the scribes were doing . |
| 13 | We support and accept the good sense of increasing sentences for offences that are worse than taking and driving away and of extending the deterrent of disqualification where personal injury and damage occurs , but it is quite another thing for someone to be guilty of additional offences that he does not commit , to which he is not a party and which he might not have foreseen as the likely consequences of his taking and driving away . |
| 14 | 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 . |