Example sentences of "be [conj] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carlisle ’ might have been but one humble example of nearly 5500 locomotives constructed by the firm , but it was an honest product of a reliable company . |
| 2 | ‘ Our love was worth its weight in candyfloss ’ ( ‘ Endless Weekend ’ ) and the aphorism of a woman that ‘ her only weapon is her ecstasy ’ ( ‘ 100 Boys ’ ) are but two random examples . |
| 3 | These are but two tragic examples of laxity in a system which has achieved increasingly high standards of safety in worldwide civil aviation . |
| 4 | It could be that one first-class photographer takes very much longer on studio work than another or that another industrial photographer can not work without bringing in extensive lighting systems . |
| 5 | Could it be that one far-off day intelligent computers will speculate about their own lost origins ? |
| 6 | Now , an amendment to an ICAO agenda requires a two-thirds majority in plenary session , and we were but three European States who wished to put this through . |
| 7 | since the poles of this function are given by where p is any integer including zero , which is equivalent to rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane reveals that the transfer function to be provided is or Two reactive components are needed to achieve second-order response and so the relevant low-pass filter in conjunction with the load resistance R is as shown in figure 12.2(a) . |
| 8 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 9 | The emerging consensus is that one serious crime in three ( excluding burglary and car theft ) is reported to the police . |
| 10 | The answer is that four important things depend upon the passing of property . |
| 11 | The second possibility McTaggart considers is that two mental states ‘ belong to the same self when , and only when , the same living body ( or what appears as such ) stands in a certain relation of causality to both of them ’ . |
| 12 | My feeling is that two separate matters sometimes get mixed up : the practice and study of connected speech is agreed by everyone to be of great importance , but this can sometimes result in some relatively unimportant aspects of speech ( e.g. assimilation , juncture ) being given more emphasis than they should . |
| 13 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 14 | The second is that two normal observers viewing the same object or scene from the same place will ‘ see ’ the same thing . |
| 15 | ‘ The story is that two other clients of Martinez , ’ and Fearnley named two tennis players who were well-known for their skill at ladies ' doubles and notorious within tennis for their lesbian activities , ‘ were detailed to pursue Mary-Ann . |
| 16 | Whenever the result of the development of node k is that two new branches are grown , the up- and down-nodes are assigned values of and ( where x r is the branching variable ) respectively . |
| 17 | The disadvantage is that two distinct operations ( polymerase chain reaction and restriction cleavage ) are required . |
| 18 | What is even more significant is that 24 different players have shared the scoring honours , emphasising the team 's strength . |
| 19 | The answer is that three other sectors have provided relief — the revenues of North Sea oil extraction from 1980 ( an activity of limited life ) , the profits from selling services to other countries , and the profits on investment in other countries . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is but one small snag . |
| 22 | From the point of view of teachers , then , the category of gender is but one critical perspective of many . |
| 23 | A slight variation in this household was that one social worker stayed behind . |
| 24 | The irony of Buchanan 's attack on ‘ Hooligan Imperialism ’ was that one important way in which the Hooligan figured within the troubled preoccupations of his contemporaries was precisely as a fighting-fit recruit for the imperial armies . |
| 25 | Newman 's central idea , both as a Catholic and as an Anglican , was that one holy Catholic and apostolic Church exists . |
| 26 | Partly it was for lack of anything else to be curious about , the usual island obsession with trivialities ; partly it was that one cryptic phrase from Mitford and the discovery about Leverrier ; partly , perhaps mostly , a peculiar feeling that I had a sort of right to visit . |
| 27 | That 's right , Bolton won five nil but what we did get clarified from the Football League today was if two English teams finish their four games on the same number of points , is it goal difference or is it the number of goals scored that is the crucial factor ? |
| 28 | Its leading edges were free to articulate , the central keel was retained simply because short of cutting it away , there was no choice , and there was but one forward cross-spar . |
| 29 | 1985:21 ) from concepts of structural relativism ( which took the place of the idea that there was but one right model of organization , on the basis of a firm hierarchical structure ) through structures of which some were mechanistic and others organic and into the realm of " contingency " models ( structures of management which alter according to the issues with which they have to deal ) . |
| 30 | This was because one strong feeling dominated me : ambition . |