Example sentences of "to any but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marginality they experience within the force might lead them to exaggerate their job satisfaction , but this cuts both ways , for the unpopularity of community relations among many ordinary members of the RUC guarantees it will not appeal to any but the committed , and section duties already afford the work-shy many opportunities to hide . |
| 2 | A strike of about twenty-five staff in the sterile supplies stores had dramatically reduced activity , which was already hampered by the union policy of refusing admission to any but emergency cases . |
| 3 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even though the USA and USSR 's potential competitors were no longer a threat , political pressures prevented ‘ sales ’ to any but the British and French national airlines . |
| 6 | consoles and design tables and laboratories and workshops is considered , by the few who so jealously guard their knowledge , as information too sensitive to be transmitted to any but those in the topmost reaches of government . |
| 7 | Their chorus was in harmony with the principals on the judicial stage : ‘ To any but those who desire to see a Sidney Webbian England ’ , wrote Allen , ‘ it is essential that the bureaucratic mind be confined to its proper function , which is that of the lieutenant , not the captain . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | She did not need to speak her pain to any but her God . |
| 11 | But I did not come close to any but my outward gestures . |
| 12 | At first pay little attention to timing , but , as you become familiar with various aspects of your subject , set yourself questions to be answered in a continuous and timed session without reference to any but the permitted aids . |
| 13 | Romaine has concluded that the concept of the variable can not usefully be applied to any but low-level morphological variation . |
| 14 | Fifty years ago this was not the case ; there was then no apparent threat to any but a few species . |
| 15 | They are all so remarkably tame , that any number of shots may be fired among them without causing the slightest alarm to any but those that are actually wounded . ’ |