Example sentences of "[am/are] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're but a sprout of a Squat . ’ |
| 2 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 3 | But remember , I am but the Prince 's hands . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Dear lady , I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service … ’ |
| 5 | Yet the ideas used to justify the existence and work of the media , such as the ‘ freedom of the press ’ , are ideas whose true meanings are but a memory of past struggles in very different circumstances . |
| 6 | Early flowering plants such as marsh marigolds , spring squill and thrift are but a memory as the rich smell of cloves wafts across the fields from the stands of bog asphodel . |
| 7 | This is largely due to the fact that the cost of prototypes in their industry are but a fraction of that of an aircraft . |
| 8 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 9 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 10 | These are but a handful of key motor racing personalities round whom Prost weaves an absorbing range of anecdotes and gossip . |
| 11 | Though to date there are but a handful in the Catholic sector , their potential use as centres for post 16 adult religious education , as well as for serving the needs of the community as a whole , including the unemployed , is an exciting one . |
| 12 | From 1970 to 1975 , the planting of new vineyards was particularly hectic and the figures for 1982–5 are but an indication of yet another intensive period of viticultivating new land within the delimited region . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It will be the text to which all talks about natural science are but the commentary ’ . |
| 15 | I 'm but the style was there |