Example sentences of "[det] but [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally senior staff have become separated from this but their own experience in the ranks ( if they had any ) leaves them fully aware of the emotional dynamics between landing staff and prisoners . |
| 2 | Not only that but her social life is ruined . |
| 3 | Alright that but nothing one game she can actually play with . |
| 4 | We regard nationalisation of the land for all but its existing use ( which is what nationalisation of development rights means ) as a long step towards the nationalisation of the land itself . |
| 5 | The fictional morphology of this suffering is more aptly suggested by the novelist and critic Akhsharumov , writing the very year Crime and Punishment appeared in hard covers , who observes that Raskolnikov 's mental torment , which is his punishment in all but its public aspect , begins with his first promptings towards the crime . |
| 6 | At a horse show anyone can recognise the horse that is saying , ‘ You 're annoying me ! ’ , by the swishing of its tail ; or the horse that announces to its spurred rider , ‘ You 're hurting my sides ! ’ , by tightened muscles making a clear line along the lower edge of its ribcage ; or the halter horse , taut with anxiety and showing the whites of its eyes , telling all but its insensitive handler that it is afraid ! |
| 7 | It offers users the chance to be self-sufficient for all but their largest data processing operations . |
| 8 | Banks will lend to all but their smaller customers in this wholesale market adding an additional margin over Libor , which of course represents the bulk of their marginal funding cost . |
| 9 | In exasperation the Army purged Parliament of all but their own supporters , and caused its Rump to set up a court to try the King for treason against the people of England . |
| 10 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
| 11 | At this time he decided to dispose of all but his essential possessions , and hid his library of books ( his most treasured possession ) with a view to selling them also . |
| 12 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 13 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
| 14 | Soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbe Eyadema , who was divested by the national conference in August of all but his ceremonial powers [ see p. 38379 ] , twice stormed the national radio and television station on Oct. 1 , in separate attempts to return him to power . |
| 15 | ‘ The author is an historian respected by many but his so-called facts , he does not always verify them . |
| 16 | She was frantic to know more but her own ambulance was involved in an accident and she could do nothing until the end of her duty to learn whether or not Chris was involved . |
| 17 | It was the first time she 'd sworn , except the one perfectly correct use of a word more generally used in any but its proper context . |
| 18 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 19 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |