Example sentences of "is but " in BNC.
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| 31 | From Calais to Albert , the nearest town to Thiepval , is but a two hour drive . |
| 32 | FROM Aachen to Bonn , the ancient to the modern capital , is but an hour 's drive . |
| 33 | Man is but a reed , the most feeble thing in nature ; but he is a thinking reed . |
| 34 | As Byron put it , ‘ I never loved nor pretended to love her , but a man is a man , and if a girl of 18 comes prancing to you at all hours , there is but one way … |
| 35 | Comedy there certainly is but this Petruchio and this Katherine are so evenly matched in the violence of their tempers that romance is in short supply . |
| 36 | ‘ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : |
| 37 | The AEC is but one example of a number of fruitful initiatives undertaken by practitioners in and through the medium of counselling , assisting , directing and monitoring . |
| 38 | ‘ Well , well , well , Captain , ’ said Mayor Mutton when the laughter ceased , ‘ So you are apprehended at last … caught in the very act of importing illicit French liquor into His Majesty 's Realm , a heinous crime for which there is but one penalty . ’ |
| 39 | Then came a question on the size of the Balm of Gilead Fir in America and which sort of soil suited it best , ‘ for there is but one place , in England , where the trees live more than ten or twelve years . ’ |
| 40 | It also can isolate one action from another , so that the total sequence is not relevant ( concentration on washing one 's neck has little to do with the subsequent ‘ sea-side ’ actions — the action of washing one 's neck is but an arbitrary item in a string of actions ) ; |
| 41 | Drama is but one way in which society makes sense of the material world . |
| 42 | This is but one way of reminding ourselves what an extraordinarily good job they did of the ‘ conceptual framework ’ , as they called it . |
| 43 | Each step is but a different way of helping the class to begin to internalise the gravity of a family 's decision to lace unknown dangers . |
| 44 | It seems , however , that the tension for the actor is but derivative of that tension endlessly defined and redefined by psychiatrists , psychologists and social psychologists in terms of inner/outer reality : I/Me , Ego/Self , or subjective/objective . |
| 45 | It can be argued that the art of the actor is but a sophisticated reflection of what occurs in all human action : a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled ( using ‘ symbolic ’ in the sense of the ‘ public language ’ of number , words , gesture and sound , etc. ) , a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying . |
| 46 | ‘ I ca n't remember offhand where the section is but if you follow me we 'll find out . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ No matter for that ; ‘ t is but your |
| 48 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 49 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 50 | The film is but one version of some horrifying events , and stretched poetic licence to the extreme . |
| 51 | The association of station departures with death and transfiguration ( cf. the Stations of the Cross ? ) is but one aspect of a wider concern with identifying the particular mystique of the station . |
| 52 | Is but the dawning that precedes the sun . |
| 53 | Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on . |
| 54 | According to that theory everything exists for only an instant and is then replaced by a facsimile of itself , so that it is but a series of momentary existences like the successive frames in a cine-camera film . |
| 55 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 56 | Although the proposed method is novel , it is but one of an increasingly large number of methods designed to detect and model ‘ clusters ’ of disease ( see , for example , Cuzick and Edwards 1990 ) . |
| 57 | Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity , the wearing of robes are more venerable . |
| 58 | A labourer and his family — in all eight persons — are the occupiers of this hovel , in which there is but one bedroom for their accommodation . |
| 59 | Ask for details of sensations , where they are situated , where they move to , how they start and change , find out what the pattern is but take care to use open ended questions whenever possible ; questions that can not be answered by a simple ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ , such as ‘ How does your head feel ? ’ instead of ‘ Do you have a headache ? ’ |
| 60 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |