Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 2 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 3 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 4 | The creamy-white leaves are so conspicuous that the flowers hardly show up at all but the fragrance is breath-taking . |
| 5 | Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that . |
| 6 | Sorry to single you ladies out like this but the story must start somewhere . |
| 7 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |