Example sentences of "be [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 31 | Referring to Peter Brooke 's statement that the British Government no longer had any interest in staying in Ireland , Daisy said : ‘ Peter Brooke 's talks about talks are all but finished . |
| 32 | But now to reality , for the ‘ classic ’ carp fishing days are all but dead . |
| 33 | MOST spiders weave webs that are all but invisible , but some species include a very conspicuous broad band of silk across the middle of the web . |
| 34 | THE days of wedding night nerves are all but over . |
| 35 | Goblins are so weak and vulnerable that small units are all but useless , while the principle of deep ranks and narrow frontage is essential for combat survival . |
| 36 | The transmissions use those soliton waves we told you about way back in summer 1990 ( CI No 1,459 ) , which are electronically induced and never lose their shape as they whiz through optical glass fibre , so that signalling errors are all but non-existent , obviating the need for costly error-correction equipment , which also slows down transmission . |
| 37 | In Britain a party 's first-category candidates somehow find themselves adopted for seats they are all but certain to win , second-category candidates for marginals and third-category candidates for seats they have no hope of winning . |
| 38 | It is however the subtler aspects of weight , control and role which " colour " the process , to the extent where one case is so different from another that their common origins are all but lost . |
| 39 | Features such as kerning , tracking , inter-letter and inter-word spacing control , ligatures and hung punctuation are all but unknown in page makeup yet no typographer would be without them . |
| 40 | External frames are all but defunct in the UK because most have accepted that the ergonomically contoured internal frame sack is much more stable to carry than an external frame pack , even at the expense of some loss of ventilation to the back . |
| 41 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 42 | The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes . |
| 43 | At the far left-hand end of the scale are events which are all but certain , such as the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow — the subject of G. H. Hardy 's halfpenny bet . |
| 44 | Other contributions which absorb as much in the way of time and intellectual effort — new methodological or computational techniques , datasets which have some general usefulness — are all but discounted . |
| 45 | The adonis blue and silver-skipper butterflies are all but extinct . |
| 46 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 47 | Now if , if you accept the ten percent owning the eighty percent , there must 've been enough but the poor are not getting it . |
| 48 | Chief call notes are loud but rather liquid disyllabic croaks , ‘ curruc ’ and ‘ kittic ’ and a ‘ kaak ’ . |
| 49 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 50 | We had been outside the village of El Ouata — we would have been inside but for him . |
| 51 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 52 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 53 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 54 | The cat may have been away but the mice certainly did not play in this TNT Gold Cup game at sunny Windsor . |
| 55 | Lord Coulsfield said the sentence would have been longer but for the fact that after the crimes were brought to light , the accused had to wait 15 months for his court appearance . |
| 56 | The bedrooms are comfortably but simply furnished and have a private bathroom . |
| 57 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 58 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 59 | We went with the sixth formers las last summer we went to see The Tempest and it 's such a beautiful place you know , it 's you 're outdoors but it 's quite weird the way they do it , because you 're like in a canopy but the actual stage it outdoors , so you 're covered but you get a bit cold and you need to take woollies and things , it can get a bit cold out there , but it should be nice in the summer . |
| 60 | Yeah we know they 're there but they 're the wrong kind for you darling . |