Example sentences of "is all but [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be revealing to know more about the lessons Mr Yeltsin draws from this historical experience , yet the experience — along with Khrushchev 's name — is all but absent from the book . |
| 2 | Mr Calfa , aged 43 , is a Slovak , as is President Gustav Husak , whose imminent departure is all but certain given his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of the country in 1968 . |
| 3 | A directly evident proposition is one , in Chisholm 's terminology , which is either identical with or entailed by a true contingent proposition which is all but certain . |
| 4 | ‘ The fate of McMullen is all but certain . |
| 5 | Once drained , which takes anything from four to eight hours , the cheese can be eaten immediately , with or without the addition of fresh cream ; or it can be left draining until it is all but dry , when it can be kept for cooking , or salted and flavoured for consumption as a mild cheese . |
| 6 | But if the situation Benjamin describes is too open , its constitutive relationships too direct and insufficiently mediated , Adorno 's net , by contrast , is so tightly drawn , its equations so perfect , its circle so complete , that any change , critique or differentiation of meaning or response is all but impossible . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties with classical theory is that there are so many other interacting ‘ imperfections ’ at work that to measure the impact of a single tax is all but impossible . |
| 8 | Their epoxy , Kevlar , carbon and foam construction is virtually bullet-proof ; it floats and is all but impossible to dispose of . |
| 9 | Armed with this terrible weapon he is all but invincible for a time . |
| 10 | When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty . |
| 11 | The leg of a litoptern is all but indistinguishable from the leg of a horse , yet the two animals are only distantly related . |
| 12 | Ramped access to public buildings is all but unknown . |
| 13 | A number of times during my weekend visit to Ireland , Bono hints that a move to London is all but inevitable . |
| 14 | Yet he finds the resistance is all but insurmountable on almost every level of the concert music business . |
| 15 | His left leg is much better than it was , but his left arm is all but useless and he ca n't really grip firmly . |
| 16 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 17 | The reason it is a truly creative process is that finding any particular creature is extremely difficult , simply and purely because Biomorph Land is very very large , and the total number of creatures sitting there is all but infinite . |