Example sentences of "be [coord] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be but a few minutes , ch'un tzu . ’ |
| 2 | They were but a few examples giving testimony to campaigns against the commercial exploitation of living things for the creation of products and processes for industry , agriculture and research science . |
| 3 | I du n no who , who do I m I do n't know , I d do that to s er see there is somebody that I do that quite a bit to but I ca n't remember who it is or a few people maybe . |
| 4 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 5 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 6 | if you end up going to the office and it 's the same layout as it it it was and the same people there , |
| 7 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 8 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |