Example sentences of "is [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian Federation is fighting a rearguard battle against this trend , which is slowly but surely killing Italian rugby . |
| 2 | Gazza is slowly but surely learning the Italian language , making it work for him . |
| 3 | He is politely but quite openly starting to mock her . |
| 4 | Its heart is in the right place , the detail is right but the texture is wrong . |
| 5 | Mr Calfa , aged 43 , is a Slovak , as is President Gustav Husak , whose imminent departure is all but certain given his association with the Warsaw Pact invasion of the country in 1968 . |
| 6 | ‘ A time of swift , sometimes brutal change when the old established order is all but over , ’ he says . |
| 7 | It would be revealing to know more about the lessons Mr Yeltsin draws from this historical experience , yet the experience — along with Khrushchev 's name — is all but absent from the book . |
| 8 | Electrification is all but complete near Silkstone as K3 61960 toils up the hill with a heavy westbound train on 6th November 1951 . |
| 9 | The man or woman who has been made redundant may begin to feel that life is all but over . |
| 10 | The orchestra is severely stretched to maintain any sort of cogent line , and the fantasy of the work is all but lost . |
| 11 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 12 | A number of times during my weekend visit to Ireland , Bono hints that a move to London is all but inevitable . |
| 13 | The picture of an economic and political system in which social exclusion , however unfortunate , is somehow a remediable affliction is all but required . |
| 14 | Manager Ian Porterfield indicated Beasant 's Stamford Bridge career is all but over after his dreadful errors gifted victory to Norwich on Saturday . |
| 15 | Armed with this terrible weapon he is all but invincible for a time . |
| 16 | Sometimes the impact of regulations on imports is straightforward : foreign rice is all but banned . |
| 17 | Yet he finds the resistance is all but insurmountable on almost every level of the concert music business . |
| 18 | Lions , wildebeeste , giraffes , buffalo and boldly-marked birdlife dot the dramatic landscapes in a country where almost eleven months of sunshine a year is all but guaranteed . |
| 19 | Once drained , which takes anything from four to eight hours , the cheese can be eaten immediately , with or without the addition of fresh cream ; or it can be left draining until it is all but dry , when it can be kept for cooking , or salted and flavoured for consumption as a mild cheese . |
| 20 | A directly evident proposition is one , in Chisholm 's terminology , which is either identical with or entailed by a true contingent proposition which is all but certain . |
| 21 | But if the situation Benjamin describes is too open , its constitutive relationships too direct and insufficiently mediated , Adorno 's net , by contrast , is so tightly drawn , its equations so perfect , its circle so complete , that any change , critique or differentiation of meaning or response is all but impossible . |
| 22 | Ramped access to public buildings is all but unknown . |
| 23 | One of the difficulties with classical theory is that there are so many other interacting ‘ imperfections ’ at work that to measure the impact of a single tax is all but impossible . |
| 24 | His left leg is much better than it was , but his left arm is all but useless and he ca n't really grip firmly . |
| 25 | Their epoxy , Kevlar , carbon and foam construction is virtually bullet-proof ; it floats and is all but impossible to dispose of . |
| 26 | ‘ The fate of McMullen is all but certain . |
| 27 | When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty . |
| 28 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 29 | The reason it is a truly creative process is that finding any particular creature is extremely difficult , simply and purely because Biomorph Land is very very large , and the total number of creatures sitting there is all but infinite . |
| 30 | The leg of a litoptern is all but indistinguishable from the leg of a horse , yet the two animals are only distantly related . |