Example sentences of "[indef pn] but a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the distant past , when the genetic material was being accumulated that makes mankind what it is , nobody but a warlord lived in a dwelling he could not make himself . |
| 2 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 3 | ‘ I flatter myself ’ , he wrote on the evening after he arrived home , ‘ that even our American friends must admit that nobody but a ‘ Britisher ’ would have been able to successfully cope with such difficulties . ’ |
| 4 | The girl in the chapter was under-age , but the sex was so ambiguous and romantic that none but a prude could find it objectionable . |
| 5 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 6 | Their numbers in further and higher education colleges in the UK alone were estimated in 1985 to be more than 55,000 , representing remarkable progress even by comparison with the situation 15 years earlier when none but a few pioneering colleges made any special effort to accommodate students with disabilities or learning difficulties . |
| 7 | They were advised in 1743 : You can not expect to marry in such a manner as neither of you shall have occasion to work , and none but a fool will take a wife whose bread must be earned solely by his labour and who will contribute nothing towards it herself . |
| 8 | Hartley Coleridge said of Green ‘ Amid many discouragements and with no better patrons than the mutable public of Lakers , his spirit never flagged , his hand and eye were never idle , and he had a healthy love for his employment such as none but an honest man could understand . ’ |
| 9 | He had a hearty , healthy love of his employment such as none but an honest man could feel or understand . |
| 10 | It all seemed a bit pointless — and anyway no-one but a raving lunatic was going to attempt to get airborne in those conditions . |
| 11 | YOU AI N'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG ! |
| 12 | No one but a bloody fool would try to walk a mile with an arrow through his chest . |
| 13 | Some fish go a step further and display not one but a pair of false eyes . |
| 14 | After Lefebvre , we still wish to see space as an object commodified , but in late twentieth century Britain this commodity has not one but a multiplicity of identities . |
| 15 | However my worry is not first and foremost a medical one but a spiritual one . |
| 16 | Newbigin cites the evidence of not one but a variety of Christologies in the New Testament reflecting ‘ the attempts of that community to say who Jesus is in terms of the different cultures within which they bore witness to him . ’ |
| 17 | No one but a Socialist stands a chance of promotion or employment under the Council today . |
| 18 | No one but a native would consider such details , uninformative to the outsider , as worthy of note . |
| 19 | Miller 's End was empty , and no one but a stray farm-worker was going to use the lane . |
| 20 | It is an old one but a first UK publication . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely no one but a madman … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Where no one but a Welshman is likely to be able to track them . |
| 23 | In the side-streets running down towards the river theatregoers are looking for parking-spaces , but on the pavements there 's no one but a few belated bureaucrats like myself , heading for trains and Tubes . |
| 24 | The preliminary round was an experience in more ways than one but a successful result in this tie could see the Blues avoiding such a scenario in future . |
| 25 | Not a terribly expensive one but a calendar would do fine . |
| 26 | The operation is a simple one but an effective one . |
| 27 | No one but an old Londoner who has been born and bred and has lived for 50 to 60 years in London can have any idea of the extent of the change . |
| 28 | It was far too hot to wear one but an interview demanded the formality , although why his authority as a questioner should depend on the smallest degree on what he was wearing he could not say . |
| 29 | Anybody but a complete knucklehead could find a beautiful woman in a place like Waldron City inside twenty-four hours . |
| 30 | With no reason to suppose he was anybody but a Greek-Cypriot , they would go on talking business in Arabic , and Taxi George would time their cab ride according to the intelligence value of their conversation . |