Example sentences of "be but one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the courts , however , Pontius Pilate has been but one of many who have claimed , more or less sincerely , not to know what truth is . |
| 2 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 3 | Clearly , examinations , the way they are perceived , oriented to and drawn upon as a source of professional justification by teachers , are but one source of influence on the continuing pervasiveness of transmission styles of teaching in the school system . |
| 4 | Questions set by the computer , which then supplies the answer for checking purposes after a randomly set time delay , seem to have a powerful motivating effect and are but one example of the effectiveness of the computer 's simulating the random elements which the pupil experiences in everyday life and work . |
| 5 | The ‘ educational ’ problems of the unemployed are but one dimension of a range of negative factors — psychological , economic , environmental , and so on . |
| 6 | And the unemployed themselves are but one section , albeit an important and prominent section , of the ‘ disadvantaged ’ in our society . |
| 7 | He was not Evil , for even Evil has a certain vitality — Bel-Shamharoth was the flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side . |
| 8 | They are but one source from which Legionella pneumophila can breed . |
| 9 | For many people birds become an obsession — but for most they are but one part of the whole countryside experience . |
| 10 | To this there can be but one response . |
| 11 | The Yasa says that there must be but one Lord upon the Earth . |
| 12 | — There shall be but one Lord upon the Earth , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Why ca n't I be but one more sheep — |
| 14 | External and internal war produced their victims , of whom Makarenko 's stray youths were but one example . |
| 15 | At one time the Rowdies were mainly Skinheads for whom the terraces were but one of a number of arenas for collective action . |
| 16 | ‘ In the multitude of words there wants no transgression ; therefore let thy words be few , ’ is but one admonition regularly repeated in scripture and the sayings of the fathers . |
| 17 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 19 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 20 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 21 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 22 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 23 | The AEC is but one example of a number of fruitful initiatives undertaken by practitioners in and through the medium of counselling , assisting , directing and monitoring . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 25 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 26 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 27 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 28 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 29 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 30 | The association of station departures with death and transfiguration ( cf. the Stations of the Cross ? ) is but one aspect of a wider concern with identifying the particular mystique of the station . |