Example sentences of "is but [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 2 | The song is but brief , and perhaps an appreciation of Kerman 's penetrating , if occasionally purple , dissection and minute analysis would have been much easier to grasp had all the music been reproduced . |
| 3 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 4 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 5 | ‘ Such an intent we find wholly commendable , ’ said the child gravely , monumentally sure of his shaky ground , ‘ and we confide that your father must feel with you , as is but natural . ’ |
| 6 | As they have sown , so must they reap and reap , even when the poppy flowers of passion have withered in their hands , and their harvest is but bitter tares , garnered in satiety . |