Example sentences of "[prep] all [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 2 | It is things like that which are really destructive to writers , who are often brave about illness and pain , and resilient after all but the deepest grief . |
| 3 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 4 | And this is unlikely to change — after all if the sales person knew enough to do a good job of giving advice they could easily start a new career as a consultant ! |
| 5 | The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members . |
| 6 | He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers . |
| 7 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 8 | At that time , radio sets were beyond the means of all but a very limited number of them . |
| 9 | I also found it hard to deal with the petty bourgeois outlook of all but a few of the girls at that private school . |
| 10 | The rewriting of all but a very few of these definitions was deliberately excluded from the programme of the Supplement , as it would have been both impracticable and prohibitively expensive . |
| 11 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This system taxed the intelligence and understanding of all but a few . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the other hand , an increase in grazing pressure leads to the elimination of all but a few very tough species . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | This is what strikes fear into the hearts of all but the most experienced , and has men playing there for the first time knocking at the knees . |
| 19 | That theory has now been replaced in the minds of all but the most incurable romantics by the idea that the name derives from medio e lanus , half-way plain , lanus being a Celtic corruption of plane . |
| 20 | Systematically pushed to the margins in the labour market , past the household power of active parenthood , soon deprived of all but the trimmings of public influence , are they not all victims in the age-bound society of the contemporary West ? |
| 21 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 22 | In the conventional view Coldbath Fields was a shock to respectable consciences , and rallied the support of all but the dangerous classes to the Peelers . |
| 23 | What was it that was happening , with this stilted mist hanging , obscuring the view of all but the immediate path ahead . |
| 24 | With Britain 's long history of civic integration of all but the most marginal social classes ( or at least their male members ) , there was — so some have claimed — less of the cultural marginality affecting significant social groups from which fascism could draw strength ; by extension , there was supposedly more of a commitment to the rules of the ‘ democratic game ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ They may be in the radar demonstration room learning the art of manipulating radar devices which surely must be beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them , or maybe they , too , are learning something of ‘ behaviour at height ’ and the ‘ ways of jetstreams ’ . |
| 26 | Offered for disposal to other groups , no-one was forthcoming as heavy corrosion in the main undercarriage units put restoration beyond the means of all but the richest of concerns . |
| 27 | One hit from a cannon can dispose of all but the most powerful monsters . |
| 28 | Thus on the one hand the liberal , free economy strategy is evidenced in the non-censorship of all but the most extreme pornography and the encouragement of commercial values in broadcasting , which is likely to mean decreased control over pornographic images , while on the other the strong state strategy is evidenced by that hard core pornography is not open to direct viewing by the public and by the appointment of censorious watchdogs over the BBC . |
| 29 | Women , she argues , are deprived of all but the most trivial sources of dignity or self-respect . |
| 30 | These knowledge sources are essential to the comprehension of all but the simplest discourse , and hence present a considerable acquisition problem for computers . |