Example sentences of "is but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this is but the reverse side of the Janus face of justice , for in their eyes it happens more often that criminals are released or are not put in prison for long enough . |
| 2 | Of ‘ all the oppositions that furrow Freudian thought ’ it can be said that ‘ one is but the other different and deferred , one differing and deferring the other ’ ( Margins of Philosophy , 17 — 18 ) . |
| 3 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 4 | It is the concrete being that reasons ; pass a number of years and I find my mind in a new place : how ? the whole man moves ; paper logic is but the record of it . ’ |
| 5 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |
| 6 | Is but the dawning that precedes the sun . |
| 7 | Undoubtedly this is but the first of competing efforts to develop ever more tempting animal/plant combinations . |
| 8 | ‘ Nay , on the contrary — it is but the beginning methinks . ’ |
| 9 | The Evangelists use the miracles to say who Jesus is but the way they arrange their accounts shows that they are also interested in the authority of Jesus , the salvation offered by Jesus and Jesus ' conquest of evil . |
| 10 | In this , China is but the largest part of a wider trend . |
| 11 | For though here on earth she seems to live eternally , it is but the shadow of her beauty that men see — each as he desires it . |
| 12 | The rank is but the guinea stamp , The man 's the gold for a' that |
| 13 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 14 | CHORUS : How so ? 'T IS but the odour of the altar sacrifice . |
| 15 | This is but the opinion of one prosecutor expressed not long after the legislation had come into force . |
| 16 | Do you not know that what you belittle by the name tree is but the mere four-dimensional analogue of a whole multidimensional universe which — no , I can see you do not . |
| 17 | Or what I want to know is but the question is |
| 18 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |
| 19 | PS : This is but the first in a series of dumb questions … |
| 20 | Fred will tell you in a moment what T M V is but the symptoms are the plants have brown blotches on the stems , fallen leaves all round where th where the plants are growing erm and he 's done all he can to get rid of it . |
| 21 | The widely ignored " Global 2000 " report is but the latest in a growing list of official and quasi-official studies showing how the present forces of production conflict with ecological processes in a way likely to create major structural changes in the biosphere : desertification ; acid rain ; soil destruction by loss of fertility and build-up of toxins ; carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere ; reduction of the world 's genetic resources and variety . |
| 22 | but all of which are gone and we 've replaced them with these since many , you know , quite a few years ago , er we bought one utility suite from an engineer who was going to Rhodesia and that 's in our second bedroom still it 's , well the bed is but the |
| 23 | Sometimes I have a fear in me that this is but the first of many engagements in a struggle which is new , in scope if not in kind . ’ |
| 24 | Yes he is but the thing is cars at the moment are so cheap |