Example sentences of "[prep] [det] but [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly climate is essentially responsible for this but soil plays a part too . |
| 2 | Deforestation and agricultural encroachment are among the reasons for this but forest-management policies have also been inadequate . |
| 3 | Head teachers took the main responsibility for this but class teachers also made an important contribution . |
| 4 | I know she walks away with a hundred thousand dollars from each of those but money is not everything . |
| 5 | The UK voted against all but parts E and G of the resolution ; the USA voted against all but part E. |
| 6 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 7 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 8 | Submit the package for QA in the normal way , generating new versions of the modules , identical in all but modification records . |
| 9 | I did not choose to reprint it , but the material has been freely drawn on by others , sometimes in all but word for word form . |
| 10 | The more rounded body , still distinctly Shogun with perhaps a more Americanised flavour , has increased dimensions in all but height , which is slightly lower , like the bonnet . |
| 11 | In all but height ( five-foot-five ) Mr Niachos is larger than life . |
| 12 | The shape of the inner depends on the design of the tent , but to all but lightweight buffs it can be the deciding factor of your purchase . |
| 13 | A strike of about twenty-five staff in the sterile supplies stores had dramatically reduced activity , which was already hampered by the union policy of refusing admission to any but emergency cases . |
| 14 | ‘ The public interest which the court upheld in Neilson 's case was not based on confidentiality … but on the need to reassure informants that statements would not be usable for any but section 49 purposes . |
| 15 | When reason is excluded from love 's excitements what results is not love at all but lust , infatuation , or empty sentimentality . |