Example sentences of "be [adv] but " in BNC.

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1 The Tachykinins are a family of biologically active neuropeptides that are widely but selectively distributed in both the central and the peripheral nervous systems , where they may function as neurotransmitters ( 1 ) .
2 That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that
3 The Pentagon believes that the Russians are slowly but surely catching up with Western technology , often with Western know-how .
4 As many developing countries are slowly but surely moving from economies based predominantly on agriculture into manufacturing and service industries , and as Third World populations are moving in great numbers from rural to urban areas , there are concomitant changes in the structures of food provision in these countries ( Abbott , 1987 ) .
5 This reinforced findings reported elsewhere that Motorways are wrongly but widely thought to be the most dangerous type of road .
6 Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible .
7 England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather .
8 He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ .
9 Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate .
10 The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated .
11 With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station .
12 In France , the Socialist Party has been all but destroyed by crushing defeat in the general election in March .
13 Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc .
14 Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated .
15 The last dynasty of legitimate Judaic monarchs had been all but extinguished .
16 An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars .
17 So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible .
18 The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly .
19 The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ .
20 The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed .
21 She had been all but asleep and possibly incoherent .
22 Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible .
23 The forests of the Chimanimani mountains , on Zimbabwe 's border with Mozambique , which are among the most species-rich areas of Africa , have been all but destroyed during the 10 years in which the region has been under military control .
24 Summer is all but gone , school 's in for winter and already there 's movement on the big name concert scene that 's been all but dormant of late .
25 In short , the unprecedented growth in world trade referred to earlier has been all but curtailed .
26 Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical .
27 The mills are all but gone , the chimneys felled ; the air is clean , the town is green with trees and wide spaces ; it is proper , neat , contained ; cobbles , clogs and polluted drizzle from the thundering cotton-mills have long since been abolished .
28 Down in the old Arab quarter of Jaffa , the cosy streets of Roberts ' lithographs are all but gone .
29 The pioneering days are all but over .
30 The difficulties of the cruise are all but forgotten by most .
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