Example sentences of "[prep] all [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 2 | ‘ What was it after all but an experiment ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More original , though hardly more practical , was the proposal of Thomas Pownall , a former Governor of Massachusetts , for the creation of ‘ a Council of Commerce , for all Europe and North America ( absolutely exclusive of all and every point of politics ) ’ . |
| 8 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 9 | Her long dark tailored suits , with ridiculously feathered matching hats pinned to silvery hair , gave her the respect of all and an air of authority few would dream of challenging . |
| 10 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 11 | the use of field titles , and not just the anachronistic formula ‘ on a Modular Course ’ on all degree certificates ; this was accepted by CNAA for all but the BEd degree — combinations of single fields being prefaced by ‘ Combined studies in … ’ . |
| 12 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 13 | On Orkney 's west coast cliffs we filmed the memorial to Lord Kitchener and the men of the Hampshire which had struck a mine near the shore in 1916 and gone down with all but a handful of survivors ; in the Flow we spoke to divers still bringing up steel and copper from the Kaiser 's sunken High Seas Fleet ; and on the island of Lamb Holm on the eastern side we filmed a sequence of the little Catholic chapel , fashioned out of a Nissen hut by Italian prisoners-of-war who had built a causeway linking the islands after Prien 's successful foray in U.47 against the Royal Oak . |
| 14 | Indeed , I believe the Buid to be highly unusual in their condemnation of aggression in their dealings with all but the animal and spirit worlds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The best it has been able to achieve is loose , probabilistic associations which sometimes , in all but the terminology used , have treated individual offenders as at least partially free , rational and choice-making ( and in so doing , has to some extent converged with classical criminology ) . |
| 20 | Aurae Phiala was close enough for fishing , close to two good fords , in all but the flood months , and safe from actual flooding . |
| 21 | Because weight is such an important factor in boards planing , there are two weight groups in all but the funboard division . |
| 22 | With the growth of towns , the coming of the Industrial Revolution , and the improvements in surface transportation , the pattern in all but the staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew ( and grows ) increasingly more diverse and complex , to the extent that it moves ever more out of the realms of the local researcher into those of the economic or social historian working at national , or even international , level . |
| 23 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 24 | Small but perfectly formed for pub rocking ( ie sweaty and restricted view from all but the front three rows ) . |
| 25 | In an early 1950s mining community , husbands kept their wives ' allowances low so that they could skip a shift if they wished , but few wives expected their husbands ‘ to work for nothing ’ and it is not difficult to find examples of wives exercising considerable control over all but the husband 's pocket money . |
| 26 | It included trade and financial liberalization , and the ending of price controls on all but a handful of basic goods and services . |
| 27 | I emerged after an hour confident on all but the maths . |
| 28 | But in reality this option will be closed to all but a handful . |
| 29 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |
| 30 | Experience shows that two ceiling tiles pinned or glued together are effective , stuck to all but the viewing glass of the aquarium . |