Example sentences of "it [is] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're at all interested in that area then I have got you a reference I can give you to hand but it 's but a great deal of er architecture , certainly the thirties , forties , fifties reflected corporate status , corporate identity . |
| 2 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 3 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 4 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 5 | The march of the matriarchal society may have been stopped here in the United Kingdom , but it is but a temporary halt , a moment in time . |
| 6 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 7 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 8 | It is but a short step , and it logically follows , from the consideration of social reality as contingency and facticity to the consideration of the painting process itself in terms of such contingency and facticity . |
| 9 | It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory . |
| 10 | It is but a short step to relate the same topographical analysis to village plans and to suggest , from their regularity and consistency , that they may also have been planned . |
| 11 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |