Example sentences of "[be] but [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limited , until recently , to an A4 sheet and with some initial problems in terms of RIP reliability it may have been but the output quality is more than adequate for a wide range of documents . |
| 2 | ‘ Dear lady , I am but an errand boy in the Foreign Service … ’ |
| 3 | We could n't believe he could not be but the heart abnormalities were all there . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | She is but a servant maid , and one of the lowest kind : yet look at her face , as the light of recognising love spreads over it . |
| 6 | The characteristic gaudy beak of the puffin is but a summer adornment , and is shed in winter . |
| 7 | The ‘ superstructure ’ of ideas and social institutions comes to reproduce the economic base : ‘ the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas in every epoch ’ , Marx claimed , and ‘ the state is but the executive committee of the whole bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 8 | The rank is but the guinea stamp , The man 's the gold for a' that |
| 9 | However citified and sooty my surroundings , I was but a shilling bus-ride from the crags and heather of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 10 | It is not known who the Islay Correspondent was but the date line was always at Port Ellen . |