Example sentences of "[pers pn] is but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sack Kylie — she is but a cipher , a simpering , unthreatening man-pleaser . |
| 2 | We do n't know what nationality she is but since her Italian is poor it 's likely that she spoke English with her American friend . |
| 3 | She is but a servant maid , and one of the lowest kind : yet look at her face , as the light of recognising love spreads over it . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know who she is but I know that she exists . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison . |
| 6 | Dad told me , I ca n't remember what relation she is but she 's a relation to them anyway . |
| 7 | I ca n't think who who she is but er I 'm sure that was the prize . |
| 8 | Mind you he 's not as good looking as she is but |
| 9 | Du n no how old she is but looks good on it anyway erm the erm the er let's do these these bits of paper er lost cats and dogs and things . |
| 10 | I should hate to give the impression that my love for you is but thinly disguised lust . |
| 11 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 12 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 13 | Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy . |
| 14 | I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy . |
| 15 | It will be chaired by Steve Pinhay , the producer of ITV 's Saturday Night At The Movies , a programme which keeps on sending me press releases saying how wonderful it is but , when I actually watch it , seems to ignore the independent cinema entirely , particularly the variety that actually dares to speak in a foreign tongue . |
| 16 | Otherwise , ‘ how great soever the assurance is , that I am possessed with , it is groundless ; whatever light I pretend to , it is but enthusiasm . ’ |
| 17 | It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark . |
| 18 | I have no fear , knowing it is but a passing from one world to another . |
| 19 | It was an unforgivable , though unintended , breach of confidence ; and it is but a small consolation to know that Herr Sussmeyer thereby gained a correspondence with a young woman which he has doubtless found extremely gratifying . |
| 20 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 21 | Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 27 | It is but one of a plethora of bearable books on the ever lovable cuddly toy which has imprinted itself in the imagination of young and old alike , and always with a name by which to identity the original . |
| 28 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Nay , on the contrary — it is but the beginning methinks . ’ |
| 30 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |