Example sentences of "but [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criminal law , in other words , condemns the importation of murderous terrorist acts usually against powerful individuals or strategic institutions , but goes all quiet when governments export or support avoidable acts of killing usually against the under-developed countries ' poor . |
| 2 | You may have only intended to have a small black coffee but given all the antecedent events ( that is , the things we have described leading up to walking into the café ) , the probability is high that you will break the diet . |
| 3 | Both players missed the 17 fairway to the right with Wilson lying in the more favourable position it looked like he at last might take the lead but using all his experience McCarroll succeeded on the green for a half . |
| 4 | ‘ What a funny old election this is , at which the political parties argue about taxation and legislation but declare all the time that they intend the electors of this country to have no further control over the very questions that are being put to them . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well Wrapped , 7-4 fav , is lucky to be alive after a crashing fall at Newbury in February but made all in the Charlecote Handicap . |
| 7 | Quakerism must be one of the most sensible religions of all , since it has no ministers and no hierarchy but involves all its members in its organisation and its acts of worship . |
| 8 | But explore all the options first , such as cost-cutting and restructuring borrowings , before calling in an insolvency practitioner : they tend to see everything in terms of insolvency legislation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But forget all that , this place is exquisite . |
| 11 | Hope bowed more elegantly , muttered the line about being her servant but concentrated all his will on the first look direct . |
| 12 | At 3.9m long it is shorter than a slalom kayak but has all the features of the original Kiwi , making it ideal for family and disabled use . |
| 13 | But has all this improved what universities are meant to be doing , or have they changed their role ? |
| 14 | It does not simply make the claim that one difference is more important than all the others but articulates all further identifications in terms of a primary sexual identification . |
| 15 | The Ifö Aqua wc is Swedish made , but meets all UK water byelaws and is approved by the British Board of Agrément . |
| 16 | In this way figs , Muntingia calabura ( introduced from the West Indies , but fruiting all year round ) and species of Melastoma are dispersed . |
| 17 | The dilemma is particularly evident in the films of Joseph Losey , who could create a masterpiece like The Servant about the country 's class structure , but seemed all at sea with his Bond spoof , Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ) . |
| 18 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 19 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Singapore is not competing with these countries but promoting all ASEAN countries so that the region as a whole can offer the full range of resources and become a global economic power , ’ said Mr Lee . |
| 21 | Those with 16 or 17 passes but meeting all other requirements , and who could not keep within the ‘ 21 rule ’ if they were to take additional modules are awarded a degree without honours . |
| 22 | Here , however , the clause does not just apply to one disposition , but confirms all the dispositions in the will . |
| 23 | They could all ride now — after a fashion — and stay on over their modest course of jumps ( built of railway sleepers ) ; they could all swim at least three lengths and run a mile without stopping to fall in a heap every hundred yards , not very fast perhaps , but improving all the time . |
| 24 | The new state was beset by many problems but over-shadowing all was the Dutch refusal to hand over New Guinea . |
| 25 | Yes that does n't exclude but includes all of that , but at the same time although everybody that 's going to read it may not understand the intricacies of it all as professionals we 're giving more than a passing nod , so that was something else , er er and something more involved than English teacher than making them jump through loops |
| 26 | Make up the lining in the same way as the curtains , but machine all hems . |
| 27 | Erm win number five , a rose bag , right , now you can keep the tickets if you want , but get all them little plastic things and put them in the bin |
| 28 | But wearing all green suits and with little knobbly stalks on their heads . |
| 29 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 30 | On Jan. 21 a Senate standing committee urged the government to make " full use of the opportunity provided by the US ban on weapons sales " , saying that " we should not only seek alternative sources but utilize all our capabilities to achieve self-reliance in defence production " . |