Example sentences of "in [adj] but [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ) . |
| 6 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |