Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motivation for the ideator is quite varied : playfulness , fear of failure , and stress reduction are but a few . |
| 2 | Yet whenever you feel the urge to venture forth into civilisation again — perhaps for a romantic dinner a deux , or a soothing massage in the capable hands of a master masseur — the first class Hotel and adjoining Country Club are but a short walk from your front door . |
| 3 | This is largely due to the fact that the cost of prototypes in their industry are but a fraction of that of an aircraft . |
| 4 | We huddle beneath the covers , but to our dismay , the one duvet is but a slim pink layer of fabric resembling a furniture cover . |
| 5 | The Am American system is one of , as I 've said , a dispersed , limited and shared form of authority and the president is but one actor , and in Reagan 's case not a very good one , in that particular er set of arrangements . |
| 6 | Vision to the north of the Watford Gap is impaired and anything north of the Solway Firth is but a distant and insignificant blur . |
| 7 | ‘ The parasite is but one , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The characteristic gaudy beak of the puffin is but a summer adornment , and is shed in winter . |
| 9 | 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 ) ; |
| 10 | labour is but lost that build it . |
| 11 | I might not have known exactly what rationalism was but it was nevertheless deeply engrained in my picture of the world . |
| 12 | Well , she 'd lost that much weight , now she 's very conscious from then on , you know , she 's sort of kept her weight down , but her daughter also had a job at our place and she was gross , I mean , Olive and Ann had both been huge women , but , but this daughter , and she was only about five feet tall and er , I do n't know what her weight was but it was one of those |
| 13 | 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 . ) . |
| 14 | The customer who walks out without paying in a restaurant and the guest at a hotel who leaves early in the morning by a fire escape are but two examples of the problems hoteliers face . |
| 15 | Her spontaneous telemessage to the mother whose baby was abducted and her dance with an old-age pensioner at Toynbee Hall are but two examples of this . |
| 16 | To those who have enslaved our Nation — the Capitalists and the Marxists — the very ideals of Motherland , Folk and Honour are but ‘ myths ’ to be annihilated in their attempts to construct a deadening , soulless and hideous concrete world . |
| 17 | Rumours that the increased duties to be levied on gin were but the beginning of a general excise , an indirect tax that would hurt the poor much more than the better-off , fuelled the crowd 's antipathy towards the government : " If we are Englishmen … let them see that wooden shoes are not so easy to be worn as they imagine . |
| 18 | Peter Gaskell wrote : ‘ The chastity of marriage is but little known or exercised amongst them : husband and wife sin equally , and an habitual indifference to sexual vice is generated which adds one other item to the destruction of domestic habits . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ His marriage is but two weeks old , ’ said Isambard thoughtfully . |
| 20 | Although the disc 's sun is but an orbiting moonlet , its prominences hardly bigger than croquet hoops , this slight drawback must be set against the tremendous sight of Great A'Tuin the Turtle , upon Whose-ancient and meteor-riddled shell the disc ultimately rests . |
| 21 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 22 | Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity , the wearing of robes are more venerable . |
| 23 | True , the extent of public disclosure is but one of the considerations in play — and , as we shall shortly indicate , not in our judgment the most material one in the circumstances of this case . |
| 24 | Sport is but one and , seductive as it may be , it is precarious and , inevitably , short-term . |
| 25 | He smiled , ‘ It 's OK , you do n't have to pretend you remember me ; this instant recall is but an outward symbol of the soul-scarring effect you had on me . |
| 26 | Spokesman Brian Adams explained : ‘ The historical society is one of the oldest clubs at Queen 's but for a long time it seemed to have fallen into a plodding routine . |
| 27 | In China and Tibet , the Dragon is but a transposition of the Serpent . |
| 28 | Claud Lorrain sometimes painted that celestial luminary in his pictures , but , if not , the sun was but little out of it — a choice generally to be preferred to all others . ’ |
| 29 | Endill tried to find out what the plan was but Mr Crangle refused to say . |
| 30 | Illiteracy was but one of its multiple facets . |