Example sentences of "but [verb] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applauded those measures , such as Lloyd George 's budget of 1909 , which tended to diminish social inequality , but attacked all moves to increase state centralization and control over the individual . |
| 2 | He collected data from sixty-nine countries ( but excluded all countries in Africa ) on such economic variables as GNP per head , calories consumed per head , and gross energy consumed per head and compared these to years of secondary schooling — general and vocational . |
| 3 | The Ifö Aqua wc is Swedish made , but meets all UK water byelaws and is approved by the British Board of Agrément . |
| 4 | In this way figs , Muntingia calabura ( introduced from the West Indies , but fruiting all year round ) and species of Melastoma are dispersed . |
| 5 | Make up the lining in the same way as the curtains , but machine all hems . |
| 6 | A working compromise is to allow strictly regulated rights of passage , that permit monitoring but exclude all possibility of exploitation in any other way . |
| 7 | You can guide him a lot , but resist all temptations to take over his job by talking to the committee . |
| 8 | The fact that the committee was not merely an hierarchical instrument of management , but represented all departments and a range of statuses , was also felt to be an advantage : Very luckily we 've got quite a few Scale 1 younger teachers , people with new ideas , possibly … and it 's taken up , quite well … it 's quite respected now . |
| 9 | If the stick did n't lie flat , but went all tittymatawta hike a seesaw ) , he then wanted to know the reason for it . |
| 10 | But taking all courses together there was a steady decline in the proportion of manual workers attending and a gradual drift away from subjects regarded as ‘ Social Studies ’ . |
| 11 | A counselling technique , where the listener does not pass judgement or give advice , but focuses all attention on the speaker . |
| 12 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 13 | But forswear all attacks upon cities and towns , upon travellers going their way without ill-thought towards you , all provocation of all kind against the borders , and avoid , so far as ye may , any meeting with any English soldiery . |
| 14 | I have mentioned above that , for various reasons , some authorities wish to date Fera pessima to the 1540's — a fact strangely left unmentioned by Dr. Kenneth Elliott , in his notes to this release , who casually dates it ‘ about 1525 ’ , but postpones all argumentation for this to an as-yet unpublished article . |
| 15 | But crowning all Carole Ann Ford 's reminiscences are the classic ‘ Hartnellisms ’ that did so much to inject notes of levity into a very hard working production cycle . |
| 16 | But concentrating all attention on the pus cells , as researchers have done for the past 20 years , is perhaps to miss the most important elements of process . |