Example sentences of "[be] but the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 2 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 3 | But remember , I am but the Prince 's hands . ’ |
| 4 | Though they have cornered the lion 's share of the Brits in this part of the world , Andorra 's six resorts are but the tip of the Pyrenean iceberg . |
| 5 | It will be the text to which all talks about natural science are but the commentary ’ . |
| 6 | I 'm but the style was there |
| 7 | If Thomas Krens , the museum 's think-big director , has his way , the Wright building will be but the flagship of a flotilla of Guggenheims dotting the globe . |
| 8 | We could n't believe he could not be but the heart abnormalities were all there . ’ |
| 9 | Similarly where no such trust has been brought about : if , say , a child 's family disintegrates it may well be but the beginning of a whole sequence of misfortunes and unsatisfactory care arrangements in institutions and foster homes . |
| 10 | As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon . |
| 11 | There is no other place to be but the stream . |
| 12 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 13 | These natural physical advantages were but the basis upon which to build her technique , and on that in turn to develop her exceptional artistry . |
| 14 | CHORUS : How so ? 'T IS but the odour of the altar sacrifice . |
| 15 | The Evangelists use the miracles to say who Jesus is but the way they arrange their accounts shows that they are also interested in the authority of Jesus , the salvation offered by Jesus and Jesus ' conquest of evil . |
| 16 | Or what I want to know is but the question is |
| 17 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ Nay , on the contrary — it is but the beginning methinks . ’ |
| 19 | Yes he is but the thing is cars at the moment are so cheap |
| 20 | For though here on earth she seems to live eternally , it is but the shadow of her beauty that men see — each as he desires it . |
| 21 | It is the concrete being that reasons ; pass a number of years and I find my mind in a new place : how ? the whole man moves ; paper logic is but the record of it . ’ |
| 22 | This is but the opinion of one prosecutor expressed not long after the legislation had come into force . |
| 23 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 24 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |
| 25 | The rank is but the guinea stamp , The man 's the gold for a' that |
| 26 | A similar but more dramatic shift occurs in the wedding scene , which begins in a relaxed prose until Claudio takes over , with his mistaken hurt dignity : ‘ Give not this rotten orange to your friend , /She 's but the sign and semblance of her honour ’ ( IV.i.23ff . ) . |
| 27 | I have no idea who the printer was but the work was rather rough , suggesting that a local one was employed . |
| 28 | It is not known who the Islay Correspondent was but the date line was always at Port Ellen . |
| 29 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 30 | Locke 's ‘ Moon hoax ’ was but the culmination of Moon-myths that stretch back to prehistory . |