Example sentences of "in [det] but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy .
2 If the kitchen climate is changing , it 's because working conditions have lost the barrack room brutality which once characterised what was a pretty sordid job in all but a handful of restaurants and hotels .
3 While political independence is a contemporary and important fact of life in all but a handful of countries , the economic incorporation of their economies into the world economy continues and deepens .
4 This presupposes co-operation between services ( p 15 ) , yet workers in all but a handful of local authorities could attest to resources and personnel not being made available to effect the good working links advocated in official reports .
5 The best it has been able to achieve is loose , probabilistic associations which sometimes , in all but the terminology used , have treated individual offenders as at least partially free , rational and choice-making ( and in so doing , has to some extent converged with classical criminology ) .
6 Aurae Phiala was close enough for fishing , close to two good fords , in all but the flood months , and safe from actual flooding .
7 Because weight is such an important factor in boards planing , there are two weight groups in all but the funboard division .
8 With the growth of towns , the coming of the Industrial Revolution , and the improvements in surface transportation , the pattern in all but the staple industries changed and the whole industrial and commercial structure grew ( and grows ) increasingly more diverse and complex , to the extent that it moves ever more out of the realms of the local researcher into those of the economic or social historian working at national , or even international , level .
9 I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music .
10 Such policies only make sense to the corporate investors and stem from the perceived need to avoid integrating the industry in any but the core capitalist countries .
11 Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave .
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