Example sentences of "[verb] all 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 | Try a sample of lace over 60 stitches , then remove all but the remaining centre 20 back bed needles . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Low clouds and squalls of driving rain concealed all but the local terrain , which consisted of rocky crags and gulleys . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
| 8 | Their minds are so preoccupied with feeding they ignore all but a monumental catastrophe . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |