Example sentences of "it is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ?
2 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 .
3 Cat-equipped two-litre 16-valve engine sounds even more potent than it is but gives good economy .
4 I love it just as it is but it can be sauced with burnt brandy .
5 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 .
6 Otherwise , ‘ how great soever the assurance is , that I am possessed with , it is groundless ; whatever light I pretend to , it is but enthusiasm . ’
7 It is but the momentary flicker of a candle in the dark .
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 From the dependence and normal justification theses it is but a short step to the pre-emption thesis .
11 Crucial as this aspect is , it is but one side of a person 's moral history .
12 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 .
13 Once such theoretical weaknesses are identified , it is but a simple step to weaken the right as it operates in practice .
14 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 ) .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 The surviving gateway to it is but a poor mutilated fragment , hardly a ‘ hallowed gate ’ .
19 ‘ Nay , on the contrary — it is but the beginning methinks . ’
20 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 …
21 Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour .
22 ‘ They say that Birmingham is a sleeping giant and it is but it needs a massive injection of money .
23 But despite Mick 'n' Keef 'n' more besides , and playing an important role in shaping Britain 's nascent youth culture , it is but recently that Reading has once again become the only place for any self-respecting hep cat to pitch a tent during late August .
24 It is but it 's not that sort of novel . ’
25 Paradoxically , his subsequent statements do , in fact , make his conception élitist and authoritarian : Shakespeare and Minder are to be applauded but Dallas , Dynasty and quiz shows are to be decried because they ‘ show a contempt for the audience , nut simply as it is but also as it might be … ’ .
26 The area of special needs in further education/training has had to contend with the fact that it is but a very small part of a very much larger whole , and that the FE college and the training schemes are subject to the vagaries and constraints of the external environment .
27 For though here on earth she seems to live eternally , it is but the shadow of her beauty that men see — each as he desires it .
28 This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man .
29 To attribute any subsequent pathology in the child to that single event would be misleading , for it is but one link in a chain of traumata , any one of which — or , more likely , the sum total of all — may be responsible for the child 's condition .
30 And it is but a child of air
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