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 | Spires , corner towers , belfries , even unusually shaped domes soon adorned all but the smaller frame stations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They eat all but the smallest prey by tearing the carcases apart before ingestion , holding the body of the prey in their talons and tearing small parts away with their hooked beaks . |
| 8 | Low clouds and squalls of driving rain concealed all but the local terrain , which consisted of rocky crags and gulleys . |
| 9 | Pavic , a moustached and gentlemanly Yugoslav , was waiting in the wings with an actress , who would read all but the first page or two of the chosen extract in English translation . |
| 10 | Their widespread success convinced all but the bravest computer makers ( notably Apple , though even it is now seeking to make its machines compatible with Windows ) to join the DOS and Windows club . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
| 14 | Their minds are so preoccupied with feeding they ignore all but a monumental catastrophe . |
| 15 | Joan wrapped the sturdy cloak more closely around herself , concealing all but the lower part of her face . |
| 16 | .. ’ But despite these ridiculous fears and superstitions , the cat at play continued to weave its magic and enchant all but the most hypochondriac observers . |
| 17 | To date very little practical use has been made of such general relations because of the vast amount of experimental work required to test any but the simplest expansion in two or three terms . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 22 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |