Example sentences of "there [be] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am certain of my facts & calculations ; so there are but two alternatives : either you have spent , not extravagantly , since you are not extravagant , but sillily & thoughtlessly , which really is far worse . |
| 2 | There are but two families in the world , as my old grandmother used to say , the Haves and the Have-nots . |
| 3 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 4 | Magnolia acuminata received more precise acknowledgment : ‘ … there are but very few plants at present here , nor is it very common in the habitable parts of America . |
| 5 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 6 | It was reported as working satisfactorily in October 1900 and it must have remained so , for the final payment was made to Messrs. Gwynnes in February 1901.2 ; There are but two further important references in the Committee Minutes before the closure of the lift nine years later . |
| 7 | Receive erm there are there are n't a lot of other words that do have C in well there are but they 're quite sort of awkward words like try deceive . |
| 8 | ‘ There are but two , we have few offenders in the general way of things . |
| 9 | there are but I mean it 's it 's silly for people to say once a man is sexually aroused it 's quite difficult to stop is n't it ? |
| 10 | Though to date there are but a handful in the Catholic sector , their potential use as centres for post 16 adult religious education , as well as for serving the needs of the community as a whole , including the unemployed , is an exciting one . |
| 11 | Half Well let me let me finish the the quote because Well there are but but but but Well alright but but Peter Lilley is saying , is suggesting in a in a speech at a party conference that half the population of continental Europe are scroungers . |
| 12 | Finally he pointed out to his mother that there were but two keys to the room and the Shills had one each . |
| 13 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 14 | There might have been three of I do n't know how many there were but he was one of the older joiners . |
| 15 | No , the bit that 's in the thing , there 's plus and minus stamped but on the back there 's but you assume , you assume that there 's |
| 16 | No but I mean , the there 's but there 's a lot of people , you see when you say they 're not easily persuaded that are working class that are voting Tory and they 're not easily persuaded they cha |
| 17 | There is but one type of work which police everywhere enjoy , and that is active crime-fighting on the streets ( for example see Ekblom and Heal 1982 ; Ericson 1982 ; Holdaway 1983 ; Manning 1977 ; Policy Studies Institute 1983b ; Punch 1979a ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 19 | The Hebrew scriptures contained prescriptions that enforced a separateness and particularity of the Jewish people , in tension with the universalism of monotheistic belief : if there is but one God , he is Lord of all peoples , even if some of them feel after him more coherently than others . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Easter Island has a temperate climate , and only two tiny beaches far from the sole settlement of Hangaroa , There is but one small hotel ; our preference was for a guest house where we could meet a local family . |
| 25 | While it is undoubtedly true that Hindus say there are many gods they also declare that there is but one God , Iśwara , Devādhideva , who is God of gods . |
| 26 | There is but one restraint on design and that is that the sail height should be greater than 2 metres or 78¾ inches . |
| 27 | There is but one objective — to find the cause of the accident — and all parties are equally interested in establishing that without distortion or national bias . |
| 28 | The first time that we find it is in 36 : They are a We unit , but at once they are split up into two incompatible halves : ‘ In our two loves there is but one respect/Though in our lives a separable spite ’ — that is , some malicious act of fortune keeps them separate . |
| 29 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There is but one ! ’ screamed Fakrid to his gunners . |