Example sentences of "it be [conj] one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition . |
| 2 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At that time it was but one element in the whole decision-making process of what was I going to do with my life . |
| 5 | It was a part of the prophecy of disintegration and chaos to be expected in the latter days ; within that context it was but one detail in a large picture , but here it was all , it was an answer . |