Example sentences of "[was/were] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 34 | ‘ Why , Father , there was but a few of us , those who talked with the lads from Shrewsbury , ever knew that . |
| 35 | Compared with those , the whole mighty base was but a jagged grain of crystal dust … |
| 36 | If Rutland was but a miniature county its towns were far from untypical . |
| 37 | ‘ It was but a momentary cramp , that 's all . |
| 38 | as if , before he saw it , it was but a pale shadow of itself ; a mere blueprint , uncreated until he saw and re-imagined it . |
| 39 | According to Sir George Buchanan , Medical Officer between 1879 and 1892 , the current conception of state medicine was but a pale shadow of what it once was . |
| 40 | In some ways this was but a different form of much older attitudes towards ‘ trade ’ . |
| 41 | Liza was unaware that she was but the female counterpart of her father ; for Harriet , resolute and loyal to the last , had managed to keep any knowledge of Tom 's countless affairs from his daughter . |
| 42 | It was but the first of a host of cultural discoveries . |
| 43 | And this was but the first tray … . |
| 44 | The sultan suspected that Karadjordje 's demand that Serbia should be accorded a status similar to that of the other semi-autonomous tributary provinces within the Ottoman empire — Wallachia , for example — was but the first step towards a declaration of complete independence . |
| 45 | The Heysel tragedy was but the latest incident in a catalogue of infamy which had dogged the British game , both home and abroad , for as long as people could remember ( ibid . ) . |
| 46 | I still could n't see what the problem was but the whole hallway area had gone suspiciously quiet . |
| 47 | The injury whilst en ventre sa mère was but an evidentiary incident in the causation of damage suffered at birth by the fault of the defendant . |
| 48 | The injury whilst en ventre sa mère was but an evidentiary incident in the causation of damage suffered at birth by the fault of the defendant . |