Example sentences of "in all [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very existence of the catholic state in all but name , the realization , if only in part , of the territory of Ireland as both catholic and nationalist , had a significant and continuing impact on both the clergy 's practical theology and the laity 's day-to-day perceptions of social reality . |
| 2 | It is a robust tree , tolerant of atmospheric pollution , making it ideal for urban areas , easily grown in all but shallow , chalky soils . |
| 3 | It was slavery in all but name , and names meant little to those who had to endure it . |
| 4 | I can pull away in all but top , which I can engage at walking speed , consequently cruising is very thrashy . |
| 5 | Here the sequence begins with an instruction to a typical Californian housewife ( typical in all but name , that is ) , Oedipa Maas , to execute the will of a dead tycoon . |
| 6 | Jean-Paul signed over power of attorney to his brother in all the financial affairs of his companies , and Edouard , baron in all but name , returned to Paris and began work . |
| 7 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 8 | If ‘ these black children have been made white in all but skin colour … have no contact with the black community and their ‘ coping ’ mechanisms are based on denying their racial background' ( p. 137 ) , we must surely question Gill and Jackson 's conclusion , that : |
| 9 | The most recent findings have highlighted some of the fears of the critics of transracial adoption ; ‘ These black children have been made white in all but skin colour ’ ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 137 ) . |
| 10 | Thus children should be placed transracially at a very young age , so becoming ‘ white in all but skin colour ’ . |
| 11 | John Praty 's inventory totalled £23 , of which two-thirds were accounted for by livestock , implements , etc. , making him a farmer in all but name : he also held the lease of a mill in Birmingham . |
| 12 | Further , the neat division of society into a minority of freeholders sharply contrasted with the mass of tenant farmers and landless men stops far short of the whole truth in its failure to acknowledge the interest of copyholders whose security of tenure made them freeholders in all but name , or to distinguish leaseholders with long terms from mere tenants at will . |
| 13 | Recognized by few states apart from Japan , Germany and Italy , it was a colony in all but name , with real power exercised by Japanese administrators ultimately responsible to the commander of the Guandong Army . |
| 14 | Investigations by factory inspectors in 1925 and 1932 reported that the number of homeworkers had diminished in all but tailoring , and that few women were entering homework . |
| 15 | Safdarjung was the richest and most powerful man in India ; in all but name he had become an independent ruler . |
| 16 | Some of them hankered after the company of women , had wives in all but name , and found pleasure in fashionable clothing , drink , revelry and hunting . |
| 17 | While France hesitated , Britain acted decisively by sending an army to crush Arabi 's men at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 , and imposing what was to be in all but name the British occupation of Egypt . |
| 18 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 19 | Dunvant6 Swansea14 SWANSEA reached the Schweppes Cup semi-finals for the third successive season and the 10th time in all as they battled home against their Second Division League neighbours . |
| 20 | You will knit the same number of rows in all as when decreasing every alternate row , you just have to be careful to match all sides exactly and end neatly at the top . |