Example sentences of "[det] is but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country . |
2 | The ‘ glass ’ is hard as steel , and this is but a magical source of illumination . |
3 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
4 | In each novel the specific configuration of the two discourses , authoritative communist on the one hand , disorientating existential on the other , is the product of two overriding influences : first , the economic , political , ideological and cultural forces that together produced each particular text ; secondly , and this is but a super-structural reflection of the first point , Nizan 's divided ambitions as a novelist , attempting at one level to exploit bourgeois culture in order to disseminate communist ideology effectively ( the communist project ) , and at another level to create a cultural product of value beyond its immediate moment of production ( the bourgeois project ) . |
5 | This is but a particular example of a new truth . |
6 | 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 . |