Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | New policies are but factors in a whole web of demands that have to be managed . |
| 2 | Yet the ideas used to justify the existence and work of the media , such as the ‘ freedom of the press ’ , are ideas whose true meanings are but a memory of past struggles in very different circumstances . |
| 3 | Though they have cornered the lion 's share of the Brits in this part of the world , Andorra 's six resorts are but the tip of the Pyrenean iceberg . |
| 4 | ‘ We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth , and the great river shrinks into insignificance as it dashes its angry waves against the walls and cliffs that rise to the world above ; the waves are but puny ripples , and we but pygmies , running up and down the sands or lost among the boulders . |
| 5 | It 's difficult to evaluate how successful such co-ops are but many do seem to gain work on a fairly reasonable basis for their members , and they are certainly worth considering . |
| 6 | Growing disenchantment with economic arguments based essentially on the continuous maximisation of consumption , together with disaffection from the vogue for central planning and large scale social and economic units are but two aspects of a complex situation . |
| 7 | ‘ I know who the kids are but there 's nothing I can do about it . |
| 8 | We do n't just say what our goals are but also how to get there . |
| 9 | He watched her lower her head until her luscious lips were but an inch from his impatient weapon . |
| 10 | The Welsh losses were but light , but for the archers of Welsh blood in our forces , who are all dead or deserted with the enemy . ’ |
| 11 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 12 | Politically well yes he 's involved at every level as indeed many comrades are but if , the sign of his political influence , I think is as follows that if there are any anything major going down in his territory any major political problems coming up , then the leader of the council , one of the first people he contacts is Eric . |
| 13 | These natural physical advantages were but the basis upon which to build her technique , and on that in turn to develop her exceptional artistry . |
| 14 | Elice , ever a harbinger of gloom , was ready to point out that Athena Gardens was but one sector of Arcady . |
| 15 | I think steel balls are But you see you can do a display on your table ca n't you |
| 16 | and I , I mean , we could all go along and say what we want and what our needs are but that 's not what we 're talking about . |
| 17 | All chalks , including Belemnite chalk , are fundamentally composed of coccoliths ; the belemnites are but a tiny percentage and are also to be found in some seams of Micraster chalk to a greater or lesser degree . |
| 18 | All these questions ( and there are others ) imply that media workers are but ciphers and that they transmit the views of others . |
| 19 | Thus , according to our definitions , unc whilst unc and so , unless unc and unc are just other names for 3 and 1 w are in the intolerable situation that a sum or product of two classes depends not only on which the classes are but also on what we choose to call them ! |
| 20 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 21 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 22 | If only they knew that to him their revelations were but bricks in the house he was trying to build , rungs on the ladder of discovery , twisted curve-edged pieces in the current puzzle ! |
| 23 | It may well be he would argue that all these things are but part of the private man 's attempt to gain public approval . |
| 24 | It involves not only a judgment about the way things are but also the way things ought to be . |
| 25 | Er I honestly ca n't remember what the the breakdown on the figures are but er even by moving that inner route direction er we were unable er within the traffic model to actually er encourage so much re as much relief on the A sixty one what the actual figures were I have n't got them to hand sir at the moment . |
| 26 | Not that I welcome change ; I was very satisfied as things were but it was obvious they would n't go on indefinitely . ’ |
| 27 | At one time the Rowdies were mainly Skinheads for whom the terraces were but one of a number of arenas for collective action . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 29 | Er our general response is is that the approach for the County Council is is to be commended erm i in terms of I think , interpreting the true spirit of of of government guidance in in plan making , that erm the the the the discussion about figures is but one consideration . |
| 30 | However , the statement of aims was but one of a large number of written and oral policy statements about primary education which the Authority issued between 1985 and 1990 . |