Example sentences of "is now but " in BNC.
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| 1 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 2 | What has happened , therefore , is a transfer of production from the field to the factory floor , so that the field is now but one stage of the production-line process . |
| 3 | Well , it , it , it looked very similar , not quite as good as it is now but er , it was n't no where near as wide of course . |
| 4 | I do n't know whee it is now but it was there . |
| 5 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 6 | Mm but I , I mean I can use it as it is now but anything else on to it I would find it difficult . |
| 7 | I know what it is now but |