Example sentences of "all but [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
8 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
9 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Mr Howard said : ‘ All but a tiny minority of authorities have set affordable budgets and council taxes . |
12 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
13 | Colour all but an egg-shaped piece of the remaining fondant green . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter in those decades must have been dull or impenetrable to all but the dwindling band of initiates . |
16 | 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 . |