Example sentences of "be [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their motives tend , I suspect , to be a mixture of concern for their own and their families ' future , concern for countries and people who are less well-off than they are and a sympathetic response based on a wish for the better treatment of the animal world . |
| 2 | An almond may be but a simple nut compared with a walnut but at last I was getting close . |
| 3 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 4 | Rent-control policy in the inter-war period was the product in the main of three forces : pressure by property owners for complete control ; the Conservative Party belief that the Rent Acts were but a temporary measure to deal with a housing shortage ; and the social reality that without the protection of the Acts many working-class people would suffer considerably . |
| 5 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 6 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 7 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 8 | For the wealthy , the Act for Burying in Woollen imposed but another expense , as £5 was but a small price to pay so as not to be buried in a material proscribed for even the lowliest rustic . |