Example sentences of "[was/were] but [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the year of our folly 1990 had started inauspiciously for me , then the Fates , Lady Luck , Lord Chance , God , Life , Evolution — whoever or whatever — immediately thereafter set about the business of proving that the entangled disasters distinguishing the year 's first few days were but a mild and modest prelude to the more thorough-going catastrophes planned for the weeks and months ahead … and this with a rapidity and even an apparent relish which was impressive — if also bowel-looseningly terrifying — to behold . |
| 2 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |
| 3 | Rent-control policy in the inter-war period was the product in the main of three forces : pressure by property owners for complete control ; the Conservative Party belief that the Rent Acts were but a temporary measure to deal with a housing shortage ; and the social reality that without the protection of the Acts many working-class people would suffer considerably . |
| 4 | They were but a few examples giving testimony to campaigns against the commercial exploitation of living things for the creation of products and processes for industry , agriculture and research science . |
| 5 | And near the Post Office , opposite the Post Office , so they were But the only thing I did n't like there was the houses opposite me They all seemed to be in their windows watching everything . |
| 6 | Seeing the shortness of the crossing , the frequency of fog in the Channel , the length of the October and November nights , and the species of calm that characterizes this narrow sea for more than six weeks of December and January , I deemed the obstacles by no means insuperable , especially for partial ‘ diversions ’ and in the winter of 1777–81 laid before the ministry the plans of an expedition against the Isle of Wight which were but the preliminary of a great project of descent . |
| 7 | The doctor and the engineer were but the latest to follow the folly and beggary route , the minority which every generation throws up thinking they can beat the system . |
| 8 | However diverse the animals and plants of the modern world , they were but the last in a long sequence of populations that have replaced one another throughout the earth 's history . |
| 9 | His Cabinet experience , he unfolded , was but a small part of the assembled case . |
| 10 | It was but a small step from this to the ‘ social gospel ’ : one started with an application of the Christian Gospel to evils in society and errors in politics . |
| 11 | The squadron of cavalry was but a small contingent of a much larger military force despatched to Champagne by the Monis government : Épernay was to be protected at all costs and between twenty and forty thousand cavalry , dragoons and infantry poured into the town . |
| 12 | From there it was but a small step to parliamentary representation : |
| 13 | For the wealthy , the Act for Burying in Woollen imposed but another expense , as £5 was but a small price to pay so as not to be buried in a material proscribed for even the lowliest rustic . |
| 14 | True , it was but a small village , but the fact was maintained that the railway would have to establish their station at that point . |
| 15 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 16 | And it was but a tiny fraction of the Armageddon that was the front line … |
| 17 | It was but a poor trophy for the day — a flag in exchange for a Regent , and Balliol still at large . |
| 18 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 19 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 20 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 21 | But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham . |
| 22 | ‘ When That I Was But a Little Tiny Boy ’ . |
| 23 | If he was hurt at all , it was but a minor hurt — he walked where he was led . ’ |
| 24 | 4-1 was the answer and Cantona 's late goal was but a minor irritation as the power of Scotland proved best of British . |
| 25 | There was , indeed , a certain amount of questioning at the time of dishonest business practices and the morality of trade , although this intemperate radicalism was but a marginal force in the ensuing debates on the criminal question . |
| 26 | Yet it was only by contrast with Fei Yen that these things were noticeable : as if in Fei Yen lay the very archetype of Han beauty , and all else , however fine in itself , was but a flawed copy of that perfection . |
| 27 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 28 | It was but a short step from there to the deduction that the woman was the one they had been ordered to look out for , and the guard shouldered the door aside , bounding inwards . |
| 29 | It was but a short hop from their first rooms in St George 's Square but represented an enormous leap in lifestyle . |
| 30 | On the other hand , in the eyes of even the most loyal ministers and the foremost grand dukes and prelates , he was no holy man but a charlatan whose doctrine of ‘ redemption by sin ’ was but a thin veil for crude depravity . |