Example sentences of "[prep] [det] but a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 2 | ‘ What are you after all but a journalist ? |
| 3 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Put it this way : in Danu , even with FAKINTIL on the way out , with my history it was like I possessed a personal qualification : doctor , lawyer , accountant , except I was not one of those but a traitor . |
| 9 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 10 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 11 | Underground cellars may be cool enough for all but a handful of northerly ( ArticBoreal ) species . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 19 | Ellis and Shepherd ( 1974 ) first drew attention to this but a number of experiments by Young and his colleagues have failed to show any influence of age of acquisition of words on dichotic listening ( Young and Ellis , 1980 ) or tachistoscopic hemifield asymmetry ( Ellis and Young , 1977 ; Young and Bion , 1980b ) even when it is the age at which words are first read rather than heard that is under investigation ( Young , Bion and Ellis , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 21 | It included trade and financial liberalization , and the ending of price controls on all but a handful of basic goods and services . |
| 22 | But in reality this option will be closed to all but a handful . |
| 23 | It is a staple of the multilateral trading system , and is extended by the United States to all but a handful . |
| 24 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 25 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 26 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 27 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |
| 28 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 29 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 30 | The history of Illustrator is an unusual one ; it was originally not a drawing package at all but a font manipulation tool . |