Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] but [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man . |
| 2 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 3 | However , it is important to note and counter the limitations of mainstream approaches to management training , with their top-down assumptions , their tendency to exclude all but the head and senior staff , and their focus on strategies at the expense of educational purposes . |
| 4 | Although they are not completely spiny , they are nevertheless prickly enough to repel all but the most desperate of predators . |
| 5 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 6 | Sculpted from marble blocks , the vestibule was capacious enough to gulp all but the bulkiest of actual jungle monsters whole . |
| 7 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 8 | Third , the so-called ‘ welfare state ’ has so far appeared unable to remedy any but the grossest forms of economic and social deprivation or effectively to restrict the range of wider socio-economic inequalities , in spite of the fiscal burden imposed on the population and the productive system as a whole . |
| 9 | Lord Wilberforce sought to rebut this but the request clearly , in the minds of some , showed that the court was not independent or impartial . |
| 10 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 11 | For example , a drunken woman was brought into the station one night after assaulting a policewoman and using very abusive language , something to be expected from gougers , but was allowed home uncharged after spending a night in the cells : she was even allowed to leave early enough in the morning to avoid all but the milkman from seeing her arrive home in a police vehicle . |
| 12 | However , this concealed the fact that many ‘ listable ’ churches had never actually been listed , for , as the Church was exempt from listed building control , no systematic attempt had been made to list any but the most obvious churches . |
| 13 | While it may be too much to expect the applicant to appreciate the wider impact and implications of his proposal , and while it may be unreasonable to expect any but the most steadfast defender of National Park principles to resist continual local pressure for change , CPRW hopes that this Inquiry will enable a more far- sighted view of what is at stake , to prevail . |
| 14 | To avoid any but the worst young offenders being sent to prison , the Prison Commissioners proposed to accelerate the provision of detention centres , backed up by a new sentence of custodial training for a maximum of two years with the chance of being released on licence , subject to after-care , after six months . |
| 15 | It should be emphasised that there is no reason to discourage any but the most inexperienced solo pilots from opening the airbrakes in the final turn , provided the glider is not already low ( or slow ) . |
| 16 | Her history was not such as had ever permitted her to procure any but the meanest of genteel occupations . |
| 17 | Some have the full range of infrastructural provision enabling them to accommodate all but the heaviest industries , while others are capable of occupation only by light industry or warehouses . |
| 18 | It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage . |
| 19 | It was an understood thing , I think the kids used to do this but the parents used to , |
| 20 | They are able to persuade all but the most recalcitrant of patients to resume eating . |
| 21 | From the middle years of the fourteenth century , such steps were sufficient to keep all but the most determined attackers at bay . |
| 22 | This will flatten the stomach , not to mention all but the most robust of deckchairs . |
| 23 | It is impossible to describe any but the most popular of the salami that are found both in delicatessens and supermarkets . |
| 24 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 25 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 26 | Court permission has been granted to sell the property and advice is being sought as to the best way to approach this but the state of the building and the effects of the economic situation do not make for easy decisions . |
| 27 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 28 | In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit . |
| 29 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 30 | This is likely to deter all but the most committed from full compliance . ’ |