Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was but " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 2 | Dorothea realised that she did not know how old Alida was but it must be around her own age . |
| 3 | The movies were advancing on several fronts and the social theme was but one strand in a more complex whole . |
| 4 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 5 | Some lingering race memory remained though , some pervading conviction common to all Orientals , that this life was but one of many on the great wheel of existence and that reincarnation as someone better endowed or worse ( in his case surely worse ) awaited him . |
| 6 | ‘ A foolish thing was but a toy . ’ |
| 7 | Compared with those , the whole mighty base was but a jagged grain of crystal dust … |
| 8 | The collapse of the shogunate and the restoration of the Meiji throne was but one effect , from which a myriad of others flowed : the revival of Japanese nationalism and her imperial designs , the invasion of China , the florid plans for a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere , the bombast and cruelty of the Pacific War , the creation in America of the atomic bomb , its eventual use over the two great cities of Kyushu , and Japan 's consequent defeat , post-war disgrace , ruin and decay . |
| 9 | But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham . |
| 10 | This , then , was the basis by which Marx and Engels could argue that the state in capitalist society was but an instrument for the exploitation and repression of the working class . |
| 11 | 4-1 was the answer and Cantona 's late goal was but a minor irritation as the power of Scotland proved best of British . |
| 12 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 13 | ( Quite conceivably the conquistadores , like most colonial conquerors , believed in policies of divide-and-rule , of which this small conflict was but one example . ) |
| 14 | There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question . |
| 15 | Names , Margaret and Joan , their si single name was but |
| 16 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 17 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |