Example sentences of "[verb] [det] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 2 | The fibre itself will ensure this but the extra fluid may help it a little — certainly the fluid has to come from somewhere , and it will do no harm if it is calorie-free . |
| 3 | Try a sample of lace over 60 stitches , then remove all but the remaining centre 20 back bed needles . |
| 4 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 5 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 6 | Low clouds and squalls of driving rain concealed all but the local terrain , which consisted of rocky crags and gulleys . |
| 7 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 8 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 9 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
| 10 | Their minds are so preoccupied with feeding they ignore all but a monumental catastrophe . |
| 11 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 12 | Several cars , headlamps painted deep yellow or with brown paper covering all but a central strip of the light , started up and resumed their journey in the wake of the No 18 . |
| 13 | Similarly , and rather hauntingly , in 2492 the Coen Brothers ' Miller 's Crossing of 1991 and Raoul Walsh 's High Sierra of 1941 are likely to strike all but the specialized eye as absolutely contemporaneous . |