Example sentences of "[be] but [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their craggy faces are as safe as old bark to me ; they are but remnants of a petrified forest I have left behind . |
| 2 | Some of these dealings in ‘ futures ’ are but incidents in speculative manoeuvres ; but in the main they are governed by calculations of the world 's consumption on the one hand , and of the existing stocks and coming harvests in the Northern and Southern hemispheres on the other . |
| 3 | In The Place of the Lion , the Platonic archetypes of which objects and creatures in the world are but reflections or repetitions actually appear . |
| 4 | Such publications , useful and valuable though they are , are but indexes and do not comprise the text of the provisions in question . |
| 5 | New policies are but factors in a whole web of demands that have to be managed . |
| 6 | Right and wrong does not exist , good and evil are but stages , but rungs on the ladder of life . |
| 7 | All these questions ( and there are others ) imply that media workers are but ciphers and that they transmit the views of others . |
| 8 | Through the vapours I can even grasp at the idea that the hatred and malice of my enemies , their whisperings and pointings , are but emanations of one of the form , of love . |
| 9 | ‘ They are but rooms , my lady … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Covenants , without the sword , are but words , and of no strength to secure a man at all . ’ |
| 11 | But ( as Hobbes observed ) , " promises without the sword are but words " . |
| 12 | The nature of the two eyes of the Fate of the discworld was this : that while at a mere glance they were simply dark , a closer look would reveal — too late ! — that they were but holes opening onto a blackness so remote , so deep that the watcher would feel himself inexorably drawn into the twin pools on infinite night and their terrible , wheeling stars … |
| 13 | If only they knew that to him their revelations were but bricks in the house he was trying to build , rungs on the ladder of discovery , twisted curve-edged pieces in the current puzzle ! |
| 14 | I was just discussing this last night , but they used to be more friendly atmospheres , even with the away supporters years ago you know it was but things go full circle in the end and hopefully like I say we 're getting back to some sort of sanity now . |
| 15 | Further , Israel was now a reality — ‘ next year in Jerusalem ’ for millions had been fulfilled ; but the reaction of the Arab world was very hostile — Suez was but months away , and glimmerings of its possibility ( and worse ) were evident . |