Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are still a ‘ few ’ leaves left just as the poet has but a little life remaining within him . |
| 2 | Such relationships belong to problem novels , rather than to novels of action , to fiction where a place is not the scene in which action develops but a certain spot where characters place themselves in order to talk . |
| 3 | Oh well , there goes another theory for what did I find in one of my favourite swims but a handful of zander in the four to six pound weight range . |
| 4 | This is not the wild , undisciplined intellectual orgy that the name implies but a more systematic and proven method for arriving at some of the most likely solutions to a given problem or set of problems . |
| 5 | Moreover , Kalmar contains but a small part of the total final assembly facilities within the Volvo enterprise . |
| 6 | Man born of a woman has but a short time to live . |
| 7 | ‘ Man that is born of a woman has but a short time to live , and is full of misery … |
| 8 | ‘ Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery … ’ |
| 9 | On the other hand … if the artist becomes but a mechanical cog in the constantly revolving schedule , then the show becomes something less than artistic . |
| 10 | It 's a tiny little things you know er in glass cases now there are a few at bus stops but a lot of people do n't use bus stops any more you know they drive erm I know that posters great hoardings that we some of us probably grew up with when everybody knew what was on and the great big posters everywhere . |