Example sentences of "[is] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 2 | This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country . |
| 3 | The work of COPPES is but a small indication of the determination and resolve of the women prisoners to demand respect for their human rights , Despite their exceptionally disheartening conditions , they have Protested using all the means at their disposal and have carried out educational and political activities designed to support the work of the FDR-FMLN : |
| 4 | The difference between Figures 2 and 3 is probably not important , each being just a different representation of what can only be a pale reflection of the true state of affairs , just as any illustration of the body 's organs is but a poor reflection of its true inner workings . |
| 5 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 6 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 7 | ‘ T is but a simple place , but you will be comfortable and private there . ’ |
| 8 | Vision to the north of the Watford Gap is impaired and anything north of the Solway Firth is but a distant and insignificant blur . |
| 9 | Strove is but a tiny group of houses , a mere dot on the map , but it is close to many Tuscan treasures . |
| 10 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 11 | The ‘ glass ’ is hard as steel , and this is but a magical source of illumination . |
| 12 | In the Quran , Allah says that everything in this universe vests absolutely in Allah ( Sura al-Maidah , ayat 17 ) and that the State is but a mere Trustee . |
| 13 | Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ . |
| 14 | The author stresses that the nature of assessment is a complex activity requiring skill and being more than the gathering of information which is but a first stage in the process . |
| 15 | From Calais to Albert , the nearest town to Thiepval , is but a two hour drive . |
| 16 | " The tyranny of the multitude is but a multiplied tyranny . " |
| 17 | Each step is but a different way of helping the class to begin to internalise the gravity of a family 's decision to lace unknown dangers . |
| 18 | In each novel the specific configuration of the two discourses , authoritative communist on the one hand , disorientating existential on the other , is the product of two overriding influences : first , the economic , political , ideological and cultural forces that together produced each particular text ; secondly , and this is but a super-structural reflection of the first point , Nizan 's divided ambitions as a novelist , attempting at one level to exploit bourgeois culture in order to disseminate communist ideology effectively ( the communist project ) , and at another level to create a cultural product of value beyond its immediate moment of production ( the bourgeois project ) . |
| 19 | This is but a particular example of a new truth . |
| 20 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 21 | We huddle beneath the covers , but to our dismay , the one duvet is but a slim pink layer of fabric resembling a furniture cover . |
| 22 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 23 | The re-emergence of the basement in the Podolia Massif of the Ukraine is but a larger version of the Ozarks . |
| 24 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 25 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 26 | Alternatively , to avoid this people come to feel omnipotent which is but a short step from wreaking the kind of destruction that offers little hope of remaking life at work anew . |
| 27 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 28 | It is but a short step , and it logically follows , from the consideration of social reality as contingency and facticity to the consideration of the painting process itself in terms of such contingency and facticity . |
| 29 | It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory . |
| 30 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |