Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 2 | However citified and sooty my surroundings , I was but a shilling bus-ride from the crags and heather of the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 3 | You 're but a sprout of a Squat . ’ |
| 4 | Think that , for me , you were but a summer 's play , but summer is nearly over … |
| 5 | Sack Kylie — she is but a cipher , a simpering , unthreatening man-pleaser . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The books tell you that badgers love peanuts , but what they do n't tell you is that a plastic peanut packet is likely to go off in your pocket with a high-decibel rustle that will send any self-respecting badger right back underground . |
| 8 | And if this second branch failed , there was yet another Mortimer , Edmund 's sister Elizabeth ; and like Philippa , even if she was but a woman , she had given birth to a son , the youngest Henry Percy , Hotspur 's heir . |
| 9 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 10 | But the question remains , how confident can we be that a formula score is truly representative of the overall difficulty level ? |
| 11 | Reed warblers are no more likely to eject a model cuckoo 's egg when it is simply added to those already in the nest than they are when a substitution is carried out . |
| 12 | Could it be that a degree of PMS ( I do not mean suicidal or murderous tendencies ) is a perfectly reasonable response by a healthy reproductive system to the unnatural state of non-pregnancy ? |
| 13 | it 's it 's till a pentagon is n't it ? |
| 14 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 15 | If I again mention Mason 's Lighthouses — in its way a score of not dissimilar scope and fascination , written only a year later by a composer a generation younger — it 's because a comparison ( which Collins Classics has now made possible ) of these two pieces helps to highlight the individual nature of Birtwistle 's achievement . |
| 16 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 17 | And it is but a child of air |
| 18 | I have no fear , knowing it is but a passing from one world to another . |
| 19 | Tonight , not an easy word to spell I mean you might think it is but a lot of people spell it incorrectly . |
| 20 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 21 | The more serious the incident , the more likely it is that a judge 's professional neutrality and independence , as well as his legal training in taking evidence and establishing the facts , will be sought to command public confidence . |
| 22 | rhetorical question is , you know is it is that a question you wanted to try to answer or are you erm |
| 23 | James 's aim is the psychological one of explaining how it is that a person is able to locate a stimulus on the surface of his body . |
| 24 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 25 | Bumble-bees do not have advanced knowledge of aeronautical science , yet some extremely complicated maths is required to explain why it is that a bumble-bee can fly . |
| 26 | Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ? |
| 27 | The problem with it is that a lot of people are asymptomatic and you do n't know whom may or may not be carrying Jardea . |
| 28 | We have to produce some account of how it is that a belief can achieve this status and play this special role . |
| 29 | It is that a pupil decides what he will , or will not , consent to do . |
| 30 | Jennie explained how crucial it is that a rider can use his aids independently of each other . |