Example sentences of "this is [coord] a " in BNC.

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1 This is but a particular example of a new truth .
2 Aragorn sings his song of Beren and Lúthien some fifty pages earlier with a certain reluctance , explaining that it is ‘ in the mode that is called ann-thennath among the Elves , but is hard to render in our Common Speech , and this is but a rough echo of it ’ .
3 The ‘ glass ’ is hard as steel , and this is but a magical source of illumination .
4 And all this is but a prelude .
5 This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country .
6 In each novel the specific configuration of the two discourses , authoritative communist on the one hand , disorientating existential on the other , is the product of two overriding influences : first , the economic , political , ideological and cultural forces that together produced each particular text ; secondly , and this is but a super-structural reflection of the first point , Nizan 's divided ambitions as a novelist , attempting at one level to exploit bourgeois culture in order to disseminate communist ideology effectively ( the communist project ) , and at another level to create a cultural product of value beyond its immediate moment of production ( the bourgeois project ) .
7 This is but a stumble on the way , we shall make good what we have vowed , in spite of all . ’
8 However , I believe this is but a drop in the ocean compared to the vast number of communities that could play some form of active role , however modest .
9 This is but a tip of the formidable Octoberfest iceberg .
10 This is but an extension of the expertise which Max Weber claimed to be the foundation of bureaucratic power .
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