Example sentences of "of [det] but [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 2 | He was received in a friendly fashion by the master of a French Basque ship of St Jean-de-Luz , who then turned on him , imprisoned him and his men , and stripped the Pilgrim of all but a minimum of food and sails . |
| 3 | The absence of all but a handful of examples in the biographical sources of this method of obtaining mevleviyets leads to the inference that someone obtaining a mevleviyet by this route could not expect to get much further in the hierarchy ; and indeed the provision itself , while not prohibiting the practice , does remove one of the principal prerogatives of the holders of mevleviyets . |
| 4 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 5 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |