Example sentences of "in [adj] but [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the horsepower is n't actually telling you how much energy in total but the rate at which it 's being used up . |
| 2 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 3 | The region 's gross domestic product ( GDP ) had shown a growth rate of 6 per cent in 1991 but the figure for 1992 was expected to be only 5.7 per cent . |
| 4 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 5 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 6 | If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels . |
| 7 | While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens . |
| 8 | This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports . |
| 9 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 10 | What Goody and Watt have in mind , however , in citing their Greek example , is not simply the adoption of a writing system in general but the development of a particular form of writing in a particular way : ‘ in the sixth and fifth centuries BC in the city states of Greece and Ionia … there first arose a society which as a whole could justify being characterised as literate ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 11 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |