Example sentences of "[det] but [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rather hoped I would n't have to face you with this but thanks to your belief that I 'm somehow responsible for Eddie 's death you force my hand . |
| 2 | It 's it 's like I I better not say say this but Irishmen over that when when I when I used to work with Irishmen my word they was good Irishmen . |
| 3 | The idea of fighting against men of their own race was hateful to them , says the Chronicle C text under 1052 , because there were few but Englishmen on each side . |
| 4 | Apart from the fantastic win at Sandwich in 1975 in the PGA Championship , when Arnold shot a 71 in a howling wind , hitting nothing much but 5-irons low and flat , the 1970s and 1980s have been quieter years — a bit easier , not so much pressure . |
| 5 | The latter term describes a truer form of knowledge based not on ideas as such but ideas about real forms of existence , that is ‘ materialism ’ . |
| 6 | Dairy products , fish , leafy green vegetables , nuts , beans , and fresh fruit provide these but vegetarians may need extra vitamin B12 . |
| 7 | A Nabokov symposium in St Petersburg in 1990 ; fragments of the Berlin Wall on sale at Hamley 's , the famous London toy shop : what are these but symbols of the far-reaching changes we have witnessed without foreseeing them or being able to guess at their consequences ? |
| 8 | Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers . |
| 9 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 10 | Many of them were not even that but nonconformists of both evangelical and rational and liberal kinds . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't need you to tell me that but thanks for emphasising it . |
| 12 | It was in the winter time so it was full of hay but they would be very careful and we would ask them that they had no matches in case er there was no cigarettes much and that but pipes they were pipe smokers . |
| 13 | Not Slavs at all but Latins , ’ said Lionel . |
| 14 | Many of the buildings in the old town were six storeys high and the lanes so narrow that all but pedestrians were banned . |
| 15 | Some countries of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as Afghanistan , became very close allies of the USSR in the Brezhnev years and indeed all but members of the socialist state system . |
| 16 | Dave and Lawrence at the moment that 's all but others with aspirations . |
| 17 | In other cases , concessions for cinemas , recreational facilities , hairdressers or restaurants may not be ‘ concessions ’ at all but devices to gain custom on days of the week , or at certain specified times when there would otherwise be little business . |
| 18 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 19 | Helen Gardner , writing in 1959 , is more concerned about the continued professionalization of English which has now rendered it a subject closed to all but experts , a condition for which the " new " as much as the " historical " critics must be blamed . |
| 20 | It is therefore entirely possible that the Kremlin will delay a resumption of negotiations and wait for our natural impatience , our demobilization problems , declining American interest in Korean affairs and local dissatisfaction with the division of the country to oblige us to supply speedy solution of these terms , i.e. a united front which excluding [ excludes ] all but elements controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 21 | Fiji reported a reverse pattern for all but infants and , in Guyana , better education was associated with lower mortality among children aged 2–3 years , but not among younger children . |
| 22 | The celebrated bust , looking like two dunces ' caps applied to her chest , was encased in a puce halter-necked sweater which left all but essentials bare . |
| 23 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 24 | The nuts themselves are not nuts at all but seeds , arranged rather like the segments of an orange in a whole fruit ( properly a capsule ) that is itself about the size of an orange . |
| 25 | The UK voted against all but parts E and G of the resolution ; the USA voted against all but part E. |
| 26 | For day time relaxation at the castle , there is a swimming pool which is open from 1 June onwards , but , given the great size of the estate , the occupants of all but apartments Dottore , Giannina and Casa Nuova will need their hire car to reach it . |
| 27 | One policy still enforced means that all but Moslems are banned from entering the mosques . |
| 28 | As llamas are such graceful beasts ( in all but manners ) I was delighted to read that they may soon widely adorn the British landscape ( ‘ Europe 's farmers plough a new furrow ’ , 8 December 1990 ) . |
| 29 | It can be applied just as readily to cases in which the associates are non-verbal responses or ( as may happen with classical conditioning ) not necessarily responses at all but representations of other stimuli . |