Example sentences of "all but a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several cars , headlamps painted deep yellow or with brown paper covering all but a central strip of the light , started up and resumed their journey in the wake of the No 18 . |
| 2 | Shoreline dwellers : a king crab ( top left ) , not a crab at all but a prehistoric member of the spider family ; spider crabs ( top right ) and a crab-hunting reef egret . |
| 3 | Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 4 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 5 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 6 | Almost always it was underlain by a passionate feeling that genuine rights were being trodden underfoot , that the structure of custom and tradition by which all but a small minority of Europeans lived was being wantonly shaken , that any increase in government activity must threaten the subject . |
| 7 | Although all but a small part of the encircling wall has gone , the older part of the city , with its narrow winding streets which witnessed so much of Scotland 's history , is still clearly separate from the New Town , the two being surrounded by the Victorian and Edwardian developments . |
| 8 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 9 | ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’ |
| 10 | The rigours of the winter 1920–1 and the Kronstadt rebellion stripped away the exuberance and illusions about ‘ war communism ’ for all but a tiny minority within the Bolshevik Party . |
| 11 | Mr Howard said : ‘ All but a tiny minority of authorities have set affordable budgets and council taxes . |
| 12 | Tobacco advertising revenue ( at £60.4mn ) is marginal ( average 2.4% ) for all but a tiny number of publications ( source : Media Register ) . |
| 13 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 14 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 15 | The outer stood up to everything I could throw at it until a wicked Gogarth chimney thrutch resulted in a nicked sleeve , while the fleece has resisted all but a hot cylinder from the Snowdon Railway ! |
| 16 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 17 | An eighth of an inch of rain overnight but that should n't make any difference at all but a wet windy day . |
| 18 | Their minds are so preoccupied with feeding they ignore all but a monumental catastrophe . |
| 19 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 20 | Grass of Parnassus Parnassia palustris is not a grass at all but a beautiful flowering plant which grows up to 12in tall in wet or marshy areas . |
| 21 | Just five years ago the term desktop publishing was , to all but a select few , a totally unknown expression . |
| 22 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 23 | ‘ They were intent on killing all but a manageable few hundred thousand people . |