Example sentences of "[noun] be [coord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is largely due to the fact that the cost of prototypes in their industry are but a fraction of that of an aircraft . |
| 3 | The characteristic gaudy beak of the puffin is but a summer adornment , and is shed in winter . |
| 4 | Richard is but a child of eleven — 't is fitting and right that he should join mama and our sisters . |
| 5 | On paper , at least Renault is but a heartbeat away from having the most impressively modern and comprehensive range of cars in Europe . |
| 6 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 7 | In China and Tibet , the Dragon is but a transposition of the Serpent . |
| 8 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 9 | It was they who made very clear how the body is but a reflection of the life force within it . |
| 10 | Her sound was but a squeak , a mumble . |
| 11 | Constitutionally , and in theory , Parliament as a whole was sovereign since the House of Commons was but a part of Parliament and for a bill to become law the assent of Lords , Crown , and Commons were all needed . |
| 12 | And er it used to be quite event when you saw all the queue and , and er of course with Walsall Wood you 've got the room over the shop where the Guild room was and a rest room I think for the staff . |
| 13 | A human life-span is but a blip on the screen of evolution , and the current sea-bird problems may be little more than that . |
| 14 | At its crudest the conservative-historical approach to permissiveness is but a mourning for a lost ‘ golden age ’ , an expression of grief for the passing of a time when questions of morals supposedly appeared much simpler , more straightforward and certainly less contentious and open to question . |
| 15 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 16 | The stereo system is standard , but it is particularly complex to operate , even after practice , and the sound quality is but a shadow of that fitted in the version of the car six years ago which was , quite simply , the best I have ever experienced . |
| 17 | And Matyre was but a tool , too . |
| 18 | Legends such as the tale of the Land of White Water ( belovodie ) drove them onwards away from Europe into the dense forests where serfdom was but a memory until a voevoda 's troops stumbled upon them , making them pay taxes by growing grain for the troops or by carting goods — one of the harshest occupations in this severe land . |
| 19 | Bosch reared one off a length to have Simmons caught at gully , and Lara proceeded with all guns blazing as if victory was but a boundary away . |
| 20 | Man is but a reed , the most feeble thing in nature ; but he is a thinking reed . |
| 21 | Merrily , merrily , merrily , merrily , life is but a dream |
| 22 | merrily , merrily life is but a dream |
| 23 | What , what about row , row row , row , row , the boat gently down the stream , merrily , merrily , merrily , merrily life is but a dream Ant do you wan na sing row , row , row , row the boat gently down the stream ? |
| 24 | life is but a dream |
| 25 | ‘ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : |
| 26 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 27 | Yet in public cinemas we , the customers , watch film in the shadowy company of an anonymous crowd , each one of whom , like us , lives a life of which cinemagoing is but a part . |
| 28 | It can still muster the mightiest fleet in the Known World and its armies are rightly feared by its foes and yet the realm is but a shadow of its former self . |
| 29 | ‘ A foolish thing was but a toy . ’ |
| 30 | This gentle and more sensitive approach to children was but a part of a wider change in social attitudes ; a part of that belief that nature was inherently good , not evil , and what evil there was derived from man and his institutions ; an attitude which was also reflected among a growing elite in a greater sensitivity towards women , slaves and animals . |