Example sentences of "be [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're but a sprout of a Squat . ’ |
| 2 | Searching through her mind the only emotions she could recreate from that time were a dizzying pleasure that someone as sophisticated , cosmopolitan , successful and confident as Doctor Anthony Gillingham should appear to want anyone as dull and provincial as she had been and a kind of a triumph that she could present Comfort with Anthony 's declaration of love . |
| 3 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 4 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 5 | She has n't been one of the harvesters , she 's been but a gleaner , but God has provided for her . |
| 6 | ‘ It must be the full moon , ’ Lee grumbled , melting butter in a saucepan , and then remembered that the moon had been but a sliver the previous night . |
| 7 | The stillness at dawn had been but a prelude . |
| 8 | He says " I am but a signpost pointing the way " . |
| 9 | Yet the ideas used to justify the existence and work of the media , such as the ‘ freedom of the press ’ , are ideas whose true meanings are but a memory of past struggles in very different circumstances . |
| 10 | Early flowering plants such as marsh marigolds , spring squill and thrift are but a memory as the rich smell of cloves wafts across the fields from the stands of bog asphodel . |
| 11 | This is largely due to the fact that the cost of prototypes in their industry are but a fraction of that of an aircraft . |
| 12 | Among orthodox men of learning the biblical axiom that species are fixed entities established by God at the Creation gradually became qualified by the doctrine of plenitude , the Great Chain of Being , which declared that God , as artist creator , would necessarily have created all possible creatures in all possible worlds , and that the creatures which we now know on earth are but a fraction of those which exist in the universe . |
| 13 | The past 45 years are but a fraction of more than 2,000 years of recorded European civilisation , yet we have achieved much . |
| 14 | These are but a handful of key motor racing personalities round whom Prost weaves an absorbing range of anecdotes and gossip . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is difficult to imagine a school appointing a Head of French or Science without having either a fair idea of what a French or Science curriculum should be or a commitment to quickly devise one . |
| 17 | We lack a vision of what kind of company we want to be and a strategy . |
| 18 | We should consider also , that if they do exist then they may be but a part of a much larger pattern which stretches not only access the tiny and remote areas of south-western France but across western Europe and possibly other parts of the world . |
| 19 | Eric Honecker , the country 's ageing and inflexible leader , must know that Saturday night 's demonstrations seem certain to be but a foretaste of what is to come . |
| 20 | Some courts treat these terms in an omnibus fashion ; natural justice is said to be but a manifestation of a broader concept of fairness . |
| 21 | Alice gave her the bag in which Catherine 's disposable nappies were and a change of clothes and she put the two bottles of formula into the fridge . |
| 22 | It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times . |
| 23 | Think that , for me , you were but a summer 's play , but summer is nearly over … |
| 24 | thirty P off cans of beer that is or a bottle of wine |
| 25 | Yeah but that 's and a couple of ones like that , and that one . |
| 26 | Between a focus on Britain and a broad appreciation of the world of which it is but a part ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ See , ‘ t is but a scratch , ’ she murmured , in a voice so shy and uncertain that something else shuddered deep inside him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words . |