Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] was but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The squadron of cavalry was but a small contingent of a much larger military force despatched to Champagne by the Monis government : Épernay was to be protected at all costs and between twenty and forty thousand cavalry , dragoons and infantry poured into the town . |
| 2 | The comparatively peaceful existence of Fromebridge was but a few short years from being shattered , for in 1760 the mill came into the hands of Joseph Fairthorne and his industrious partners , William and John Purnell . |
| 3 | Constitutionally , and in theory , Parliament as a whole was sovereign since the House of Commons was but a part of Parliament and for a bill to become law the assent of Lords , Crown , and Commons were all needed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Everything he bore in hand was but half-achieved and for ever in the balance ; yet if at this moment there was a prince in Wales , his name was Owen , and Owen knew it . |
| 6 | In death was but his longing for the breast |
| 7 | That letter to Sixsmith was but one of the many dozens he had penned . |
| 8 | This gentle and more sensitive approach to children was but a part of a wider change in social attitudes ; a part of that belief that nature was inherently good , not evil , and what evil there was derived from man and his institutions ; an attitude which was also reflected among a growing elite in a greater sensitivity towards women , slaves and animals . |