Example sentences of "[pers pn] is but [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 3 | Although the proposed method is novel , it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model ‘ clusters ’ of disease ( see , for example , Cuzick and Edwards 1990 ) . |
| 4 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is but one of several dozen churches in that country promoting impressive musical programmes . |
| 7 | This is one point in the course , and it is but one example , where the inter-relation between Professional Studies and the Curriculum Course is a matter for explicit emphasis . |
| 8 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 9 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 10 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |
| 11 | To my mind it is but natural justice that a child , if born alive and viable , should be allowed to maintain an action in the courts for injuries wrongfully committed upon its person while in the womb of its mother . |