Example sentences of "all but the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No major change in the strength of all the main constitutional parties is expected once counting ends tonight and all but the Conservatives say they are pleased with their result . |
| 2 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 3 | Offerings of food are placed before the figure and so it assumes a role almost equal to that of a human , and it is in this light that it becomes understandable why the sanctum of Indian temples is usually taboo to all but the priests who attend the icon and perform the ceremonial prayers . |
| 4 | The multitude parted , the enclosure opened its gates , the press photographers descended and engulfed her , shielding her from the view of all but the tabloids . |
| 5 | A list of available photographs could be included with the mailing for all but the certainties . |
| 6 | All but the Palestinians appeared to realise that Syrian military involvement was now inevitable . |
| 7 | There should be a heavy excise duty on sugar , higher taxation of motor fuel , and an extension of VAT to all but the necessities for healthy life , principally unsweetened cereal products and raw fruit , vegetables , fish , meat , eggs and pasteurised milk . |
| 8 | Here , there was no ambiguity ; no difficulty over marriage or courtship ; no women at all but the camp-followers , or the whores who were for sale , with other merchandise , from the second , vagabond camp that stood as a fringe to the first . |
| 9 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 10 | All but the patients with grade 4 had subsjectively benefited from the operation , and 19 of 25 unhesitatingly declared willingness to repeat the operation in a similar preoperative situation . |
| 11 | Gail Adshed , 18 , student ( right ) : ‘ I 'd buy all but the tights . ’ |
| 12 | Systematically pushed to the margins in the labour market , past the household power of active parenthood , soon deprived of all but the trimmings of public influence , are they not all victims in the age-bound society of the contemporary West ? |