Example sentences of "is but [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the proposed method is novel , it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model ‘ clusters ’ of disease ( see , for example , Cuzick and Edwards 1990 ) . |
| 2 | Thus they claim that modern Western science is but one of a galaxy of alternative explanatory schemes , and that what constitutes knowledge and reasoning is relative to norms defined by society . |
| 3 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 4 | True , the extent of public disclosure is but one of the considerations in play — and , as we shall shortly indicate , not in our judgment the most material one in the circumstances of this case . |
| 5 | Mills and Boon is but one of perhaps a dozen companies in what their company profile describes as ‘ the competitive and fast-growing world of romantic fiction ’ . |
| 6 | It is but one of several dozen churches in that country promoting impressive musical programmes . |
| 7 | The geographer on the other hand , is primarily interested in how the landscape works , and in man 's interactions with it , and thus recognizes that water is but one of the terrestrial phenomena in the total complex interacting ecosystem in which he is really interested . |
| 8 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 9 | Marsh observed that companies tend to retain the services of their financial advisers over extended periods and therefore the underwriting is but one of many such financial services . |
| 10 | ‘ So modern is this piece , ’ wrote The Stage , ‘ that part of the tale is played out on a giant ‘ TV ’ screen which is but one of the wonders provided by a futuristic Merlin 's time and talking-brain machine . |
| 11 | The ith labour market is but one of n micro labour markets . |
| 12 | The Meggetland example is but one of many . |