Example sentences of "is but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 2 | Yet in public cinemas we , the customers , watch film in the shadowy company of an anonymous crowd , each one of whom , like us , lives a life of which cinemagoing is but a part . |
| 3 | ‘ See , ‘ t is but a scratch , ’ she murmured , in a voice so shy and uncertain that something else shuddered deep inside him . |
| 4 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 5 | The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words . |
| 6 | Richard is but a child of eleven — 't is fitting and right that he should join mama and our sisters . |
| 7 | And it is but a child of air |
| 8 | The thing to pursue then , is nature , and anything else is but a deviation from real happiness . |
| 9 | Sack Kylie — she is but a cipher , a simpering , unthreatening man-pleaser . |
| 10 | ‘ If what is written about the boy is true — if he is but a fraction as talented as is said … well , it would be a great waste to kill him . ’ |
| 11 | In China and Tibet , the Dragon is but a transposition of the Serpent . |
| 12 | On paper , at least Renault is but a heartbeat away from having the most impressively modern and comprehensive range of cars in Europe . |
| 13 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 14 | The only reality of the event had been her mother 's reaction , which was silent , grim , and grudging to the last ; not a tear did she shed , and after the funeral , as she turned away from the graveside and started to walk slowly through the cemetery mud she set her mouth in that prophetic way , and straightened her thick body , and then , as she passed a gravestone announcing that death is but a separation , she opened her mouth and said , " Well , he 's gone , and I ca n't say I 'm sorry . " |
| 15 | This is but a tip of the formidable Octoberfest iceberg . |
| 16 | It was they who made very clear how the body is but a reflection of the life force within it . |
| 17 | This is but a stumble on the way , we shall make good what we have vowed , in spite of all . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ ALL THAT WE SEE or seem is but a dream within a dream … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream . ’ |
| 20 | Merrily , merrily , merrily , merrily , life is but a dream |
| 21 | merrily , merrily life is but a dream |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | life is but a dream |
| 24 | ‘ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : |
| 25 | The ‘ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ’ ( LSHTM ) is but a name . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 28 | There the finite mind of man , which is but a fragment and form of the Infinite , discovers its true identity with the Absolute — and that is at the same time the return of the Absolute to itself , its own self-realisation . |
| 29 | At its crudest the conservative-historical approach to permissiveness is but a mourning for a lost ‘ golden age ’ , an expression of grief for the passing of a time when questions of morals supposedly appeared much simpler , more straightforward and certainly less contentious and open to question . |
| 30 | In Illich 's view , such treatment ‘ is but a device to convince those who are sick and tired of society that it is they who are ill , impotent and in need of repair ’ . |