Example sentences of "any but [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that music-lovers are deluded when they claim to find artistic pleasure in any but a fraction of this music . |
| 2 | The loan book must contain virtually all the liverymen of the various companies , though not necessarily all the yeomen , nor indeed any but a fraction of the membership of the poorest crafts : only a single weaver is listed , though there was a livery of thirty and a full membership of seventy in 1546 . |
| 3 | This dynamic could not indeed have developed as it did without the very considerable influence behind the scenes , particularly in the preparation of documents between sessions , of leading consultants whose theology was indeed far beyond that of any but a handful of bishops : Congar , Rahner , Philips , Chenu , Courtney Murray among others . |
| 4 | about the room were high chairs and low chairs , bandy-legged chairs , chairs so attenuated that it was a wonder any but a sylph could sit upon them , marqueterie tables covered with marvellous gimcracks , china ornaments of all ages and countries , bronzes , gilt daggers , Books of Beauty , yataghans , Turkish papooshes and boxes of Parisian bonbons … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In England the king claimed that all his subjects owed fealty to him in some degree , and in due course this came to conflict with the possibility of any of his vassals owing liege homage to any but the king . |
| 7 | It is said by the appellant … that International Law has firmly fixed that a locus such as this is beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty ; and that consequently it is not to be thought that in such a place the legislature could seek to affect any but the King 's subjects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since childhood in la Sologne — a part of France largely unknown to any but the French — where the two had roamed unfettered throughout years of sunlit days , their relationship never changed , never matured . |
| 10 | How many additional votes it might receive by way of transfers from other parties is quite unpredictable : relatively fewer than the Progressive Democrats , one might surmise , because the distinction between political parties is sharper here than in Ireland , and voters could therefore prove more reluctant to give lower preferences to any but the party they most favour . |