Example sentences of "[prep] all [coord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 4 | JUSTICE for all and a fair sharing of resources were called for by Bishop Konstant when he welcomed candidates who will become Catholics at Easter . |
| 5 | He emphasises the need for recurrent education and presses for guaranteed incomes for all and a national superannuation fund . |
| 6 | In those studies where violence level or intensity of personal threat has been successfully manipulated , accuracy has been reduced for all or a major subset of witnesses ’ ( Deffenbacher 1991 , p.395 ) . |
| 7 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 8 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Is that for for trapping it in or tuning it in at all or a different thing ? |