Example sentences of "[noun] is but [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Am American system is one of , as I 've said , a dispersed , limited and shared form of authority and the president is but one actor , and in Reagan 's case not a very good one , in that particular er set of arrangements . |
| 2 | ‘ Prince Richard is but three years your junior , ’ said Joan cheerfully , refusing to take her complaints seriously . |
| 3 | ‘ His marriage is but two weeks old , ’ said Isambard thoughtfully . |
| 4 | True , the extent of public disclosure is but one of the considerations in play — and , as we shall shortly indicate , not in our judgment the most material one in the circumstances of this case . |
| 5 | The participation of pathologists in the team effort of investigators seeking the cause of an aircraft accident is but one example of the way specialists are brought in to apply their particular knowledge to the overall problem . |
| 6 | What is of immediate importance is the realisation , often lost sight of when discussing procedure , that adjudication is but one form of decision-making . |
| 7 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 8 | Marsh observed that companies tend to retain the services of their financial advisers over extended periods and therefore the underwriting is but one of many such financial services . |
| 9 | The geographer on the other hand , is primarily interested in how the landscape works , and in man 's interactions with it , and thus recognizes that water is but one of the terrestrial phenomena in the total complex interacting ecosystem in which he is really interested . |
| 10 | The debate about social welfare is but one example of the way even the multi-dimensional negotiation is organized around the general commitment to preserving Japan 's existing social priorities . |
| 11 | Er our general response is is that the approach for the County Council is is to be commended erm i in terms of I think , interpreting the true spirit of of of government guidance in in plan making , that erm the the the the discussion about figures is but one consideration . |
| 12 | Administrative accountability and political control in liberal democracies is but one example of the liberal state 's efforts , under competitive capitalism , to bring executive power under the control of parliamentary institutions . |
| 13 | The Meggetland example is but one of many . |
| 14 | Even the General Staff is but one actor in an increasingly complex policy process . |
| 15 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 16 | Instead , he argues , one must recognize ‘ a long series of endeavours to resolve persistent questions concerning the duties of the individual , the family and the community in provision for the less fortunate ’ , of which the twentieth-century saga of state pensions is but one chapter . |
| 17 | From the point of view of teachers , then , the category of gender is but one critical perspective of many . |
| 18 | Voluntary organisations ' relationship with government is but one aspect . |
| 19 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 20 | Thus they claim that modern Western science is but one of a galaxy of alternative explanatory schemes , and that what constitutes knowledge and reasoning is relative to norms defined by society . |
| 21 | The New York stock-market had collapsed but five years previously , ushering in a period of need and anguish not only across America and Canada ( New York is but 400 miles from Montreal ) , but throughout Europe , too . |
| 22 | This sweeping and quite unsubstantiated assertion is but one man 's opinion and has no more weight than another 's , for example , my own which is completely contrary . |
| 23 | In this the basic assumption is that a particular change is but one part of a dynamic , continuous process in which the users are engaged . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The modern census is but one expression of this movement , as well as the development and vastly increased scope of economic statistics and other methods of social accounting . |
| 26 | But social dumping is but one example of the way in which the European spirit has been abused by this government . |
| 27 | However , this type 23 order is but one part of a substantial on-going programme of vessels for the Royal Navy . |
| 28 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 29 | This problem is but one instance of the general paradox which confronts any kind of radical movement or occupation which is more than purely self , regarding . |
| 30 | The ith labour market is but one of n micro labour markets . |