Example sentences of "any but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be emphasised that there is no reason to discourage any but the most inexperienced solo pilots from opening the airbrakes in the final turn , provided the glider is not already low ( or slow ) . |
| 2 | The ideal interior is neutral and unobstructed , while the demand for floor area pushes buildings to the limits of their sites , making public spaces , or any but the thinnest facades , unprofitable . |
| 3 | The marginality they experience within the force might lead them to exaggerate their job satisfaction , but this cuts both ways , for the unpopularity of community relations among many ordinary members of the RUC guarantees it will not appeal to any but the committed , and section duties already afford the work-shy many opportunities to hide . |
| 4 | It is impossible to describe any but the most popular of the salami that are found both in delicatessens and supermarkets . |
| 5 | Few , though , have the strength for any but the most modest mergers . |
| 6 | My sister can not be trusted with any but the simplest of tasks . ’ |
| 7 | It was recognised , however , that such a solution was nigh on impossible for any but the simplest systems — and this is still true today , despite massive increases in computing power . |
| 8 | A new age in chemistry , where the problem of measuring some molecular property could be resolved by pushing a few keys on a computer , has not materialised — the reason is that ab initio calculation for any but the simplest of systems remain beyond the reach of the most advanced computers . |
| 9 | However , this concealed the fact that many ‘ listable ’ churches had never actually been listed , for , as the Church was exempt from listed building control , no systematic attempt had been made to list any but the most obvious churches . |
| 10 | Check for English speaking instructors : Austrian yokel speak is beyond interpretation by any but the most fluent German linguists . |
| 11 | Here is a volume you could present to someone with no interest in science and expect a pleasurable reaction from any but the most insensitive . |
| 12 | But this hardly seems sufficient , as an armoured defence , to deter any but the most casual of killers . |
| 13 | 1975 statistics from Lesotho reveal the following figures : Schools in Cameroon and in rural areas in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia are unlikely to fare better , while there is no country in Africa without substantial numbers of schools where physical conditions inhibit any but the most basic instruction . |
| 14 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 15 | Even though the USA and USSR 's potential competitors were no longer a threat , political pressures prevented ‘ sales ’ to any but the British and French national airlines . |
| 16 | In any case , the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official . |
| 17 | These tend to be looked upon with horror by many students , but you ca n't expect to deal with any but the simplest management problem without considering them . |
| 18 | The old man replies kindly , but says there is no mention of salvation in the Good Book ‘ for any but the sinful sons of Adam ’ — at which the lady gives a cry of despair and hurls herself into the sea . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Those who do keep very quiet about it , although , as we have seen , the ‘ bootstraps ’ hypothesis concerning the origin of life is never totally dismissed by any but the most hidebound of life scientists . |
| 21 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 22 | While attempting to make the wheelchair or baby-buggy pusher 's life easier , planners often do not help by making ramps up and over steps too steep for any but the most fearless . |
| 23 | The science that was relevant to Frederick Bissett was the moment , too fast for any but the most powerful computer to register , when chemical explosive was driven by uniform spherical detonation against the fissionable material of highly enriched uranium and plutonium creating some millions of pounds overpressure per square inch … |
| 24 | It is because primary schools are difficult to classify in any but the most general terms that the phrase ‘ mixed methods ’ is used to describe the practices found in the great majority of them . |
| 25 | what Chodorow retains of the psychical that makes it impossible for her to consider social relations in any but the most simplistic way . |
| 26 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 27 | To avoid any but the worst young offenders being sent to prison , the Prison Commissioners proposed to accelerate the provision of detention centres , backed up by a new sentence of custodial training for a maximum of two years with the chance of being released on licence , subject to after-care , after six months . |
| 28 | Portability and transferability of programs between different systems is a considerable problem if any but the simplest facilities are used in a program . |
| 29 | How many additional votes it might receive by way of transfers from other parties is quite unpredictable : relatively fewer than the Progressive Democrats , one might surmise , because the distinction between political parties is sharper here than in Ireland , and voters could therefore prove more reluctant to give lower preferences to any but the party they most favour . |
| 30 | Allan Rodway and Mark Roberts , for example , argue that certain authors require " too mature a taste " to be within the reach of " any but the exceptional undergraduate " . |