Example sentences of "[to-vb] but [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking ahead , over the instruments , there is nothing to see but the front tyres and the track . |
| 2 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 3 | To cite but a few examples , he notes that a ‘ refreshing drink for such as are ill of fevers ’ was whey in which was boiled violets ( Viola riviniana ) , , ‘ field bowl ’ . |
| 4 | To cite but a few examples , the thistle is the official badge of the Clan Stewart . |
| 5 | Data for gall stone recurrence after extra corporeal shock wave dissolution are only now starting to emerge but the initial results showing 11–15% gall stone recurrencerates one to two years after lithotripsy certainly confirm this prediction . |
| 6 | Because the life-experience of women is normally so different from that of men , they are likely to conceptualise freedom , equality , rights , responsibility and autonomy , to give but a few examples , in a rather different way from men . |
| 7 | The sap which was emitted into the tank water as the plant ‘ broke down ’ contains co carcinogenics , phorbyl esters and cytotoxin to name but a few poisons . |
| 8 | VRTX has had 4,500 design wins and can be found in Ricoh cameras , Apple printers , Motorola cellular phones , submarines , bomber planes and pacemakers to name but a few applications . |
| 9 | Deaf people educated by such approaches may well leave school or college with a ( limited ) knowledge of language and communication , but what of their knowledge of science , mathematics , sociology , hearing people and sex , to name but a few examples ? |
| 10 | Are you frightened some of your readers will agree with the aims as outlined in what I believe form part of the BNP manifesto : support for reintroduction of both capital and corporal punishment , withdrawal from EEC membership , return to National Service , to name but a few items . |
| 11 | I know the questions that I want to raise but the optimum answers are far from clear . |
| 12 | From time to time various other forms of undercutting have been attributed to wind but the possible effects of other agencies , such as wetting and drying near the surface and salt weathering must not be forgotten , though they are doubtful as explanations of abraded wooden telegraph poles and even these can not be attributed to gnawing by desert rats . |