Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Lord Wilberforce sought to rebut this but the request clearly , in the minds of some , showed that the court was not independent or impartial . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |