Example sentences of "it [is] [conj] [art] short " in BNC.

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1 From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It is but a short step from this to natural selection and evolution in the laboratory .
5 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 .
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