Example sentences of "[ex0] is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 3 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 4 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 5 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 6 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 7 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 8 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 9 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 10 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 11 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 12 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 13 | There is but one small snag . |
| 14 | where they are there is that all er grass and there 's all stones and things like oh I du n no . |
| 15 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
| 16 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 17 | Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time . |
| 18 | But the easiest to explain it is the fact there is that less gravity on this side holding the sea water in . |
| 19 | Erm , by hangers-on I mean that there are all the Dukes and the Viscounts and whatever else there is and that whole strata in society , which , I think is English society , erm I mean I know that there are Dukes in Scotland but there are n't so many , and I mean they own quite a lot and I think that it 's impossible to have a classless society because the monarchy perpetuate class divisions . |