Example sentences of "[indef pn] but [art] " 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 | One of the never mentioned delights of the silent cinema was that you crunched and sucked to your heart 's content , annoying nobody but the piano player . |
| 5 | ( Holly 1971:9 ) Nobody but the teacher can make such decisions or deploy such skills |
| 6 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From 19 BC none but the emperor was permitted to enjoy a triumph , and victorious generals had to be content with the nominal honours of the ornamenta triumphalia . |
| 12 | None but the dedicated fusion watcher would want to read what is essentially a conference report , even though it does contain a scattering of important insights into the prospects for fusion . |
| 13 | Shops : none but the campsite farm has a few limited supplies . |
| 14 | The common feature of all these interpretations is , however , that , the gentry apart , they define rank and degree in none but the most general terms . |
| 15 | Even if they are deep enough to house a few aquatic plants , it would be unwise to do this , for when used for their proper purpose , water turbulence is such that none but the coarsest and most vigorous aquatics would survive . |
| 16 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 17 | ‘ None but the top brass , so I gather , Miss Everett , ’ Jimmy told her cheerfully . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | He had a hearty , healthy love of his employment such as none but an honest man could feel or understand . |
| 20 | The deaths are sad and regretted by everyone but no one seems to have attributed the beautiful poem correctly . |
| 21 | Everyone but the columnists of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express knows that the dole is n't enough to live on and asks the rhetorical question , " How do people manage ? " |
| 22 | Some believe that , to some degree at least , such a contact point already exists : cites the regular company secretarial work that everyone but the small unincorporated business has to undertake with a solicitor 's help . |
| 23 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
| 24 | They 'll let everyone but the lorries . |
| 25 | It all seemed a bit pointless — and anyway no-one but a raving lunatic was going to attempt to get airborne in those conditions . |
| 26 | YOU AI N'T NOTHIN' BUT A POUND DOG ! |
| 27 | ‘ Nothin' but the best . ’ |
| 28 | Nothin' but the best . ’ |
| 29 | The second , Blues and Beyond , takes over where the first leaves off and plunges deeper into the chromatic tones and chord substitutions Robben uses in his playing , and highlights two tracks from his ‘ Talk to You Daughter ’ album , Nothin' But The Blues and Revelation . |
| 30 | Newcastle deserved something but the decision did disappoint us . |