Example sentences of "in [adj] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He brings a world-weariness way beyond his years to his electric portrait of Morrissey-style bedroom star , painfully shy in public but a demon in his own private universe . |
| 2 | His regular visits to the hospital for treatment finally ended in 1991 but a psychiatric nurse still visits him every fortnight to help him with the bouts of depression he suffers . |
| 3 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In all but a few minor respects , the privileges of the two Houses are the same . |
| 8 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 9 | The Scottish Institute , however , feels that the system is ‘ satisfactory in all but a few cases ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 12 | In all but a few cases their treason had been petty , enlisting in the German ranks after being taken prisoner or something of that sort . |
| 13 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 14 | Economic and social changes have combined to eliminate this occupational community , at least in lowland England , in all but a few very remote areas . |
| 15 | In all but a few our taxonomic knowledge is based on expedition reports dating back often more than 50 years . |
| 16 | Yet in all but a very few , it is people that are the organisation 's most costly and most valuable asset . |
| 17 | For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries . |
| 18 | In all but a few cases , a solution will be provided immediately or within a couple of hours . |
| 19 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 20 | Registered land conveyancing is delightfully simple , both as to deducing and investigation of title , and official forms are obtainable that , with minor adaptation , will serve in all but a few cases . |
| 21 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 22 | Andy Russell put the home side in front but a mistake by Kingstonian keeper Adrian Blake allowed Tony Adcock to grab the equaliser . |
| 23 | Tries from Ian Lucas and Sam Panapa put Wigan in front but a John Gilfallan try reduced the deficit to two points before Denis Betts ' try wrapped it up for Wigan in injury time . |
| 24 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 25 | But without political institutions enjoying some real power it is difficult to have political conflict or political life in any but a very narrow sense of the term . |
| 26 | The brewery was closed by Brent Walker in 1989 but a management team bought the site and restarted brewing a year later . |
| 27 | It is hoped the home will be open early in 1994 but a management committee is already being set up . |
| 28 | Champions in 1990 but a disappointing 15th last year , Middlesex start the season against Cambridge University on Friday still unsure about the fitness of their leading seamer and with doubts about the cricketing future of another potential England bowler . |