Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] all but " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cave , also known as Diccan Pot , must be regarded as absolutely out of bounds for all but hardy and experienced cavers . |
| 2 | The question , as one senior American diplomat says , is whether the Somalis are prepared for a UN trusteeship in all but name that may drag on towards the end of this century . |
| 3 | Below the bridge , the stream , so far well behaved , vanishes in a fit of petulance into Thorns Gill Cave on its north bank , the interior being out of bounds to all but experienced cavers . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul signed over power of attorney to his brother in all the financial affairs of his companies , and Edouard , baron in all but name , returned to Paris and began work . |
| 5 | It was slavery in all but name , and names meant little to those who had to endure it . |
| 6 | Saddened that polytechnics have been unable to throw off the second-class public image , Teesside University 's director , Dr Michael Longfield said : ‘ The three polytechnics in the North-East have been universities in all but name for many years . ’ |
| 7 | The organisation for all but very small raids was now formulated , with Lord Mountbatten as Chief of Combined Operations ( CCO ) having adequate staff to prepare outline plans for raids . |
| 8 | It is indicative , too , when a mistle thrush changes his tune , forgets to repeat his challenging spring song and slips down self-consciously into the lower boughs of a larch to all but whisper a softer , lazier , persuasive serenade . |
| 9 | Some of them hankered after the company of women , had wives in all but name , and found pleasure in fashionable clothing , drink , revelry and hunting . |
| 10 | The very existence of the catholic state in all but name , the realization , if only in part , of the territory of Ireland as both catholic and nationalist , had a significant and continuing impact on both the clergy 's practical theology and the laity 's day-to-day perceptions of social reality . |
| 11 | John Praty 's inventory totalled £23 , of which two-thirds were accounted for by livestock , implements , etc. , making him a farmer in all but name : he also held the lease of a mill in Birmingham . |
| 12 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 13 | Further , the neat division of society into a minority of freeholders sharply contrasted with the mass of tenant farmers and landless men stops far short of the whole truth in its failure to acknowledge the interest of copyholders whose security of tenure made them freeholders in all but name , or to distinguish leaseholders with long terms from mere tenants at will . |
| 14 | Recognized by few states apart from Japan , Germany and Italy , it was a colony in all but name , with real power exercised by Japanese administrators ultimately responsible to the commander of the Guandong Army . |
| 15 | Roxburgh Castle was proof against all but prolonged siege and heavy artillery . |