Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] but a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To summarise therefore , the teaching of Jesus on this subject is intimately bound up with his establishment of the Kingdom : it is not a condemnation of wealth as such but a much-needed perspective on the material world in an age of materialism . |
| 2 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 3 | For example on 31 March 1991 , Chelmsford prison had a certified normal accommodation of 244 but an actual inmate population of 403 , making nearly 13,000 prisoners were sleeping two or three to a cell ( NACRO , 1991b ) — typically in prison cells which were built in the nineteenth century and designed for a single inmate . |
| 4 | But in every age there have been poets who were uninterested in thus cutting their poems free of any but a linguistic reality , poets who are ‘ realistic ’ and ‘ mimetic ’ in the most straightforward senses of those two complicated words . |
| 5 | Unless the US , upon withdrawal , left sufficient indigenous military strength to enable south Korea to defend itself against any but an overt act of aggression , US withdrawal could be interpreted as a betrayal by the US of its friends and allies in the Far East and might well lead to a fundamental realignment of forces in favour of the Soviet Union throughout that part of the world . |
| 6 | The rigours of the winter 1920–1 and the Kronstadt rebellion stripped away the exuberance and illusions about ‘ war communism ’ for all but a tiny minority within the Bolshevik Party . |
| 7 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 8 | His regular visits to the hospital for treatment finally ended in 1991 but a psychiatric nurse still visits him every fortnight to help him with the bouts of depression he suffers . |
| 9 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 10 | The meeting agreed to set up a working group on whale-watching but a British proposal to give the IWC a role in monitoring whale-watching and preparing guidelines to minimise disturbance to the animals was opposed by Japan and Norway and their supporters . |
| 11 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 12 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 13 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 14 | Shoreline dwellers : a king crab ( top left ) , not a crab at all but a prehistoric member of the spider family ; spider crabs ( top right ) and a crab-hunting reef egret . |
| 15 | The outlook for tomorrow , dry at first but a strong chance of rain later . |
| 16 | As soon as you receive replies to requisitions , you should be in a position to prepare a report on title for any mortgagee for whom you act , as is commonly required by any but a private mortgagee ; you ca n't usually do so before , because until you have had satisfactory replies you ca n't certify that the title is good . |