Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] but the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One owes respect to the living ; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth . |
| 2 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 3 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 4 | Now she wears nothing but the same thing , and always . |
| 5 | Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house . |
| 6 | Now she hears nothing but the sounds of her own house . |
| 7 | Right well here are the phone calls , you 'll be interested in these , er Ann from Birmingham says , my husband pays nothing but the Child Support Agency did n't want to know . |
| 8 | If political groups and parties atrophy into a façade behind which there hides nothing but the power struggles of bureaucrats in the party apparatus , then a pluralist , democratic society will be transformed into a mass of isolated individuals whose political thinking is uniformly directed by the mass media … |
| 9 | So the notion of an observation statement , which reports nothing but the evidence of one 's senses , is in dispute among logical empiricists . |