Example sentences of "[det] but [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 6 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 7 | Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 11 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr Howard said : ‘ All but a tiny minority of authorities have set affordable budgets and council taxes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
| 18 | As all but the uppermost part of the mantle appears capable of viscous flow when subject to prolonged stress , the semirigid lithosphere , capped by continental or oceanic crust , can be viewed as ‘ floating ’ on the underlying asthenosphere ( the most easily deformable viscous part of the mantle ) . |
| 19 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
| 20 | He appeared in all but the initial match of 1919–20 to make the left-back position his own , and then in every one of the 3rd Division championship seasons of 1920–21 . |
| 21 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 22 | It is not suggested that any but a small proportion of private homes are like this , but where such conditions do occur , it indicates that the vetting , registration and monitoring procedures are failing . |
| 23 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 24 | 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 . |