Example sentences of "[is] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he is but a bastard to the time |
| 2 | Another aspect , quite apart from this shared verse-form and linguistic usage , is the natural hyperbole endemic to it , which is but a step away from the ‘ surrealist ’ usage of language that Lorca essayed . |
| 3 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 4 | Yet in public cinemas we , the customers , watch film in the shadowy company of an anonymous crowd , each one of whom , like us , lives a life of which cinemagoing is but a part . |
| 5 | This is but a particular example of a new truth . |
| 6 | Now this may sound an anathema to some Evangelical ears because for some the Church is but a secondary fact in Christian truth , coming a long way after personal faith and experience . |
| 7 | The erosion of values and moral standards , the relativism of life , the shocking things that happen , reveal that our civilization is but a veneer that hides a viciousness and rottenness that frighten us all . |
| 8 | I have no fear , knowing it is but a passing from one world to another . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 11 | From Calais to Albert , the nearest town to Thiepval , is but a two hour drive . |
| 12 | Man is but a reed , the most feeble thing in nature ; but he is a thinking reed . |
| 13 | ‘ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice . |
| 19 | From milk to money is but a step . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The ‘ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ’ ( LSHTM ) is but a name . |
| 22 | On paper , at least Renault is but a heartbeat away from having the most impressively modern and comprehensive range of cars in Europe . |
| 23 | The difference between Figures 2 and 3 is probably not important , each being just a different representation of what can only be a pale reflection of the true state of affairs , just as any illustration of the body 's organs is but a poor reflection of its true inner workings . |
| 24 | Sack Kylie — she is but a cipher , a simpering , unthreatening man-pleaser . |
| 25 | In China and Tibet , the Dragon is but a transposition of the Serpent . |
| 26 | The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ . |
| 27 | Alternatively , to avoid this people come to feel omnipotent which is but a short step from wreaking the kind of destruction that offers little hope of remaking life at work anew . |
| 28 | ‘ He is but a little younger than you and is tall for his age , it is said . ’ |
| 29 | Richard is but a child of eleven — 't is fitting and right that he should join mama and our sisters . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |