all but

Mr Epstein's conviction that films are a terrible business for all but Hollywood's sharks also seems to have been overtaken by events.

they did not pay much, they paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. Father Hucheloup was a jovial host.

The only possible threat to this regime was a small group of Communist-led guerrillas whom eight years before he had all but liquidated.

I cannot say that I knew them all, but I can tell you that i would have been available to talk to any one of them should the occasion arise.

It seems that this was not really theft at all, but a re-appropriation of found material, a "remix" if you will.

When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista.

Once shark fins are dried and in jars, it is all but impossible to tell what kind of shark they came from or whether they were finned.

His florid rhetorical style was typical of the era, and that speech is all but forgotten.

US oil groups were all but shut out of Iraq as the country completed the biggest oil field auction in history at the weekend.

One of Jersey's biggest earners until recently was the securitisation of financial assets; that market is all but dead.

He was always so much his mother's boy, and he all but raised his sister.

I pertend that I did not care at all, but you know what, my heart was almost broken.

gin and tonic You can have it all but how much do you want it?

DOTS is feasible everywhere because the companion is usually not a community health worker at all, but a family member or neighbor.

It's no surprise that, in those circumstances, building a national team with a common purpose is all but impossible.

I am not trying to show off in front of you all, but I am quite confident in my English level as I always score first in class for English.

Attempt to impose a new order from the outside and violence is all but sure to erupt.

We must be able to see your face in the majority of your shots. Headless nudes are cool and all, but we need to know what you look like.

Yet both travelled abroad when this was all but impossible for those who did not co-operate with the regime.

Living without feedback, even in the lap of luxury, would be for all but a few recluses barely living at all.

Though he was a rigid disciplinarian with a heavy swing to his boot, all but one of his children adored him.

Greece is all but certain to have to borrow or seek aid before then.

The second, that the weapon, in his torpid hand, was no defense at all, but would merely serve to justify his murder.

She dropped her eyes to his chest, all but strangled by the mad beat of her heart. "Yes, " she said huskily. "That I care for you. "

May it not be that there is no restarting at all, but only the perception of the false as the false which is the beginning of understanding?

If I'm honest, I'm a little taken aback how you all but ignore me for two years then email me only when you need something.

The last of 10 combat stores ships once operated by the U. S. Navy and the Military Sealift Command (MSC) is all but gone.

Their nickname is all but untranslatable into English, but could be rendered as "Men of State" .

The jury deliberated and found a verdict of guilty. All but one of the jurors found him guilty.

Love is real, what you had, may have never been meant to be, You might have gave it your all, but that doesn't mean you give up its legacy.

He continues to puff away on cigars and listen to music in his office in an era where indoor smoking is all but unheard of.

Mutual understanding between them is desired for by them all, but achieved by only a few.

Unexpected bursts of traffic are no longer an issue with cloud computing, and downtime is all but eliminated.

I started to wonder if he would be better off living with someone after all, but I knew he could not leave the farm.

seems to have abated slightly in recent weeks, perhaps because our season appears to be all but over already.

He shook the photocopy at me. "Looks good, " he said. "I don't understand it all, but it's at least credible. "

Blair learned scheming from her mother And unrealistic dreaming from her father. She tries really hard to act all But don't you be fooled.

Six months later we took a look, and consumers had not benefited at all, but we had lost revenue.

Russia's Siberian reserves were once thought to be all but wrapped up in a deal for China, but now Japan may win the contract.

He said that he was afraid because these people were not men and women at all, but devils, and that this was an enchanted land.

The clear aim is to end what all but some of the uniformed generals recognise as an impasse which cannot be resolved by force of arms alone.

he thought, and opened his eyes wide, "I cannot see anything at all, " but he did not say so.

After all, many seem to believe that his career is all but over.

I kind of just want to give up with everything I said that day and go back this weekend to see you all, but I can't do that.

The USAF radar reports all but ceased Jan. 11, then appeared to show "signs of orbital distress" when resumed temporarily a few days later.

"It is better not to fly at all, but if you really have to then offsets are a good last resort, " he said.

The season is all but finished now with the simply formalities of completing our campaign with an away match at Portsmouth on Sunday.

It is a safe bet that Mr Stevens would not be retiring at all but for his desire to let a Democratic president pick his successor.

Be careful to benchmark before making a decision on this basis: the overhead of Spring AOP proxying is all but undetectable in normal use.

Israeli officials have said the Gaza border will remain closed to all but humanitarian supplies until the rocket attacks completely stop.

However, statistics released by the site's analytics team suggest Wikipedia's explosive growth is all but finished.

Accordingly, rule like the old "mailbox rule" , which made an acceptance effective upon its deposit into a mailbox, is all but obsolete.

Now what Snow White could not possibly know was that this house did not belong to children at all, but to dwarfs!

he thought, and opened his eyes wide, 'I cannot see any thing at all, ' but he did not say so.

"Oh, sorry, " said the other, not sounding sorry at all. "But they were our kind, weren't they? "

Relatively few users actually pay at all, but they are enough to account for three-quarters of the company's revenue.

When listening to a client tell such a sad story, it is easy to believe that their situation was all but preordained.

When the planes hit the twin towers eight years ago this week, I wasn't a journalist at all, but a business economist living in London.

We don't require you to finish all, but at least you should finish part of it.

One outcome is all but certain if other historic moments are a guide: Somebody will make a lot of money as power shifts.

All but a dozen households agreed, in return for a share of the rent paid by the company.

It was a year ago, all but a day, that Clare had married Tess, and only a few days less than a year that he had been absent from her.

Claude Makelele played all but the last two minutes and Didier Drogba had a fine game and several good efforts on goal.

The Bianconeri are all but certain of at least one of the two automatic qualifying spots, having recently beaten both Genoa and Napoli.

A divine designer is all but ruled out by the consideration that he must at least as complex as the entities he was wheeled out to explain.

One elderly woman told us that she had just lost her husband and all but one of her children. We hugged her and cried along with her.

Captain Wentworth made a very early return to Mr. Musgrove's civility, and she was all but calling there in the same half hour!

His former life of freedom and happiness is all but buried as the new social order makes its demands on him.

The German also said he is disappointed that politics have all but taken over the media coverage of formula one.

It took me a few years to get the hang of it all, but it finally clicked.

It is all but impossible to fix sensible lending targets in advance; and even harder to hold the banks to any promises they may make.

She was not hungry at all, but weak, and her eyes were tired, straining at the one point where the eye-punch came down.

A knife, you may feel oneself's have nothing at all, but have the similar thing, you did not lose from the beginning, do you know?

This is not to my taste at all but I still prefer it to the rest as it gives us some idea about how he sees himself, which is interesting.

It is not easy to be in the public eye in a humble and simple manner which speaks to all, but this you will all accomplish.

"ICBC is all but guaranteed to acquire the stake, " said Peter Alexander, of Z-Ben Advisors, a Shanghai-based consultancy.

You can have it all but how much do you want it?

Now that this market is "all but saturated" , she is starting to export.

The burial might have had a marker for rediscovery, or it might have been intended as an offering hidden forever to all but their gods.

The blockage of the sun for an extended period would have caused global temperatures to plummet and photosynthesis to all but ceases.

The strength of love is big enough to cause the person to forget all, but actually as small which cannot hold just a sand of envy.

However, the stipulations made at the Paris conference were all but irrelevant given that the U. S. opposed heavy economic penalties.

Renewable energy is all but unlimited, but the technologies appear more costly than polluting alternatives, and subsidies are required.

In the final, Blake did not lack in effort and had 11 break points but Federer glided around the court to save all but one of them.

(Verse 24. ) They knew that Jesus was the Lord of all, but they were not trying to take His place like the devil was.

Worse, such a boss invades your every waking hour, making it all but impossible to separate your own home life from the office.

I believe people ought to be able to worship freely, or not worship at all, but you're equally a citizen of the world.

In private meetings in New Hampshire last week, he suggested that he thought the US mission in Afghanistan was all but hopeless.

poet's paper; and the siege of the town, with the tragedies of the wooden horse, were all but a piece of poetry.

The patient has no appetite at all but tells with a smile that everything is fine.

Although I had said only has the time to be able to prove all, but actually I do not like this speech.

The fact that human beings find it all but impossible to get along for any length of time without secretly detesting one another.

It also claims it has evidence that al-Qaeda is all but broke, with only Bin Laden's personal moneys financing the organisation.

Probably constructing a railway on the bottom of the sea isn't such a great idea after all, but we do have amphibious vehicles.

Even those of military thinking are beginning to feel different about the war games that have all but destroyed your Earth.

Indeed, she said, it was not a phallus at all, but "Little Louise" .

Serena: I don't mind at all, but I'd like to know how much travel would be required.

Fossils bear testament to an ocean-covered formative period, although today Tatooine is all but waterless.

So much the better. I hope they will not meet at all. But does not Jane correspond with the sister? She will not be able to help calling.

Don't shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.

and--a circumstance concealed from all but me--Heathcliff spent his nights, at least, outside, equally a stranger to repose.

All of that aesthetic stuff is great and all, but the real innovation comes from the wind turbines built in between each floor.

McInerney's created such a charming monster here that it's all but impossible to assess her in terms of real life.

Even the cafe is glittering and the dome of the hall is all but colorful glasses, just like those in the church.

In modern steels they shouldn't break at all, but if they do it will be where the steel is thin and most easily bent, near the point.

Some are not even Chinese at all, but pretty little ink strokes that sort of look Chinese.

The fourth-quarter earnings season is all but wrapped up, and it was, well, pretty impressive.

This was shattered and shattered until it all but ceased to exist, which is why the human collective lifespan is less than 100 years of age.

But the point is that domestic politics, especially in the US, all but rules out this sort of co-operation.

Its wide streets are all but bereft of traffic, a bank branch has no customers, and leaves collect in the foyers of the municipal offices.

Vladimir Putin has all but shut the door to big western oil firms with his recent clumsy effort to create a state-run oil giant in Russia.

Of course, this question is not a question at all but a request for a command performance.

Not at all, but we seem to be getting along fine.

It's bad enough for a woman to be in business at all, but. . .

Actually I didn't want to go to bed at all, but I thought it would be best.

You can't have it all, but you can have enough to be very happy.

Yet even with such outside help, running an independent currency is beginning to look too risky for all but the biggest economies.

Demand for pallets, and therefore pallet cants and cut-stock, remains slow in all but a few niche markets and a handful of areas.

Mosques and churches often perform the duties of a state that has all but collapsed in many parts of the country.

You can choose the exact thing you want and happiness is all but guaranteed, right?

Although I use the phrase "the color black, " it is technically not a color at all but rather the absence of any color (red, green, blue).

It seems to be all but obligatory to end books on America's role in the world on a note of sugary optimism.

With all of the cabinet members reported dead, the capital is all but paralyzed.

At the end of a period in which the debt row left Washington all but paralysed, Congress broke up for the summer.

According to a spokesman for the judiciary, all but 300 of the detainees were freed within a week of their arrest.

This all but rules it out for tourists, who could be someof the scheme's biggest users.

A year later, all but one of the forecasters were too pessimistic again.

He did not really want to fight at all. But soon after his resignation, he agreed to command the forces of Virginia.

'You may not get that all but it doesn't hurt to ask, and they might at least give you something else you can use, ' she says.

Hope for more such miracles was all but extinguished as the country passed its ninth day since the quake struck.

And students together along the beach around a week , she finally saw all , but no climb tall Peak, It is indeed regrettable .

I don't think I understand women well at all. But if she wants to put right a mistake, she may keep a promise like that.

The so-called " lead" in a pencil is not lead at all, but chiefly a different form of carbon called graphite.

He was said to BE bringing back Priam's daughter Cassandra, the prophetess, as his wife in all but name.

Since all but one of them have been at least mentioned before now, we can even do a brief thumbnail sketch of each of them.

The Magnar all but ripped the maiden's cloak from Alys's shoulders, but when he fastened her bride's cloak about her he was almost tender.

Some of the highest abortion rates are in Latin America, where abortion is all but outlawed.

Fiat says that all but 500 of the total are temporary lay-offs, to last about a year.

In fact, they do not believe in doing much at all. But they are happy to provide people with a "certificate of ordination. "

They say the new strain of virus is all but certain to be back.

Self-enforced celibacy, by contrast, is all but unknown among other animal species.

By this time I didn't ache hardly at all, but I thought: "With inflammatory rheumatism you can't tell, " I thought.

Its role, to which China has assented, includes policing exchange rates - a task it has all but abandoned.

After a week or so, all but a small percentage of the water has evaporated.

The dimensions of this desolate tract are unknown to all but the inhabit ants. Only one path will bring you to the endgame.

There was no more charity in Big Al's face and his charm had all but disappeared.

The AK party is all but certain to form the next government.

The Jedi Knights have been all but destroyed. Only a handful have escaped imperial forces, disappearing into hiding across the galaxy.

It is all but impossible to make sense of China's GDP deflator over time.

Some of these food additives are not foods at all, but are chemicals that are generally recognized as safe.

He did not really know her, but since her village was all but abandoned in 1999, somebody has to.

'I don't know Mr Bingley at all, but Mr Darcy can be a pleasant companion if he thinks it worthwhile. '

This boy is not a boy at all, but a strong, purposeful man.

The dire state of the economy all but guaranteed a Labour defeat but it was not sufficient to give David Cameron's Conservatives a majority.

They make a horrible mess of it cutting it smaller and smaller and giving it no shape at all, but they thoroughly enjoy it.

I never thought I would remember it all, but my Golden Angel, my Higher Self assured me of this.

It is all but drowned out by the snaps and the crackles and pops of what is by any standard a primitive recording.

In most countries the criminal justice system has all but given up trying to punish shoplifters.

The animal life in the whole of the gulf is all but dead.

He takes great care not to miss any appointment, for if he missed it, it would be all but impossible to arrange for another one.

Maybe not all, but at least a few techniques can be practiced each day.

All but one design use some form of grippers , fingers, or other mechanism to pull the plug form the tray and insert it into the tray.

I'm fed up with it all, but I'm not allowed to show my anger in class.

Drawing sensible conclusions is harder still in India where national issues are all but drowned out in a cacophony of local politics.

By the time the January board meeting came round, top management of CICC was all but entirely in Chinese hands.

She spoke for a generation of women who were struggling to have it all, but had no idea what that looked like.

All but three had been identified by the police, using their wallets or other forms of ID.

It was a mistake, of course. Alice wasn't Mary Ann at all! But the white rabbit looked so angry, and Alice was afraid. She ran off at once.

By the time Japan was causing serious trade friction with the US in the 1980s, it had all but caught up with western living standards.

For the moment, Republican demands for smaller government have made new stimulus spending all but impossible.

so we were a little cautious. Now of course, we would have preferred to keep it all but we did the right thing.

For the moment they sat back in their chairs, their meal all but finished.

The two transmission steps do not involve the SPU at all, but only the MFC (which is part of the larger SPE).

My classmates, motivated by a desire to "save" me, pestered me until I all but reached the breaking point .

Her eyes are vacant, her skin greyish, her mouth half open, and her clothes are all but falling off her and carelessly chosen.

However, it emerged last night that his body may not be buried at all, but could be preserved for ever in his famous moonwalk stance.

Repetitive coding seems to promote mistakes now and then, and frameworks all but eliminate that problem.

Perhaps you all and all, but a rich sense of nothing more than, any other, as simple as that.

And for North Korea, a draw in Group G with Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast makes progressing into the next round look all-but-impossible.

Both France and Britain have already all but stopped buying Iranian crude, suggesting the move may turn out to be largely symbolic.

This time, the rocks weren't slippery at all, but the Donkey fell down on purpose.

Plenty of good writers don't use outlines at all but discover ordering principles as they write.

The clothes do not change at all, but the feeling needled through body was totally not so good as originally today.

The romantic and whimsical appeal is all but apparent in the fantasy exterior of turrets and gabled baroques.

With that objective all but achieved, the question for policymakers is whether Unified Protector should now be a model for future cases.

The site was an all-but-unused airport, named after Constantine the Great (the Roman emperor who was born there).

And Land was, like Jobs in 1985, all but forced out of the company he'd built.

Data corruption is all but inevitable in this circumstance.

Commercially certifying a yacht has traditionally been a taboo subject for all but the largest of yachts seeking to charter.

It was thanks to a skillful archer named Hou Yi that the Earth was saved. He shot down all but one of the suns.

All but one melanoma was diagnosed in families with two or more first-degree relatives with melanoma.

Providing discovery materials in criminal cases is binding only upon the prosecution in all but a few states and Canada.

Trade - deficit countries did not co-operate , with the result that international trade all but collapsed .

A sudden pull-out is unlikely, but an eventual withdrawal is all but certain.

When the city is all but dried up, Atlanta's response is to pray for rain.

For starters, Jackson all but conceded his team will coast to the finish even if it has seeding implications.

The underlying cause is believed by all but a handful of climatologists to be global warming brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions.

Higher yields would, in turn, further undermine sovereign credibility, shutting all but the best quality borrowers out of the market.

despite intensive medical treatment, doctors were forced to amputate the man's legs above the knee and all but one of his fingers.

And from hope to dire straits, General Motors now is all but certain to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday.

Edison had no interest at all, but he stayed in his seat out of politeness.

Karyotype reveal that in most cells all but sex chromosomes are present as two copies, referred to as homologous pairs.

Let's face it, all but the largest enterprises would prefer to not to have any IT professionals on staff, or at least as few as possible.

Jung's archetype theory is not groundless at all, but a distinctive character and rich ideological origin.

All but one of her offspring have survived, including Frodo, the current dominant male.

In all but a few of the simplest algae the plant chlorophyll is contained in chloroplasts suspended in the cytoplasm of the cells.

In other words, it's all but certain that the ISI greenlit the case brought by the tribesman for the death of his brother and son.

Once upon a time, 'private equity' was closed to all but the wealthiest individuals and institutions.

The result: There was no difference between actual and predicted metabolic rates in all but four dieters.

Here poor Brown broke down --- very sorry he had spoken at all; but Steely came to the rescue with a ray of light.

Yet the reality of business life is all but absent from American films.

All but one of the remaining hotel staff disappeared, so we brought bread, cheese, fruit and bottled water from the hotel's kitchen.

Cabell had all but isolated himself, disappearing for long walks from which he would return with samples of native rock or flora.

Not at all! But do keep in mind that this is not a "get-rich-quick" scheme.

The firm urged all but their more aggressive investors to put the money into bonds.

I woke up and I didn't hear him at all, but I knew he was fully awake.

The federal stimulus has given states nearly $200 billion over the past two years; by the end of this fiscal year, aid will all but dry up.

Lack of motivation happens to us all, but if you do not encourage yourself to accept opportunities and be challenged, no one else will.

"I'm not optimistic at all, but we have to do it for Darren, " he told his pre-Manchester City press conference.

With share prices lower and equity markets all but closed, some of those entrepreneurs are now more willing to talk.

And unlike radio-controlled aircraft, rockets were all but invulnerable to jamming or interception.

It's these older fans who will matter when Bieber begins his all but inevitable slide into a more mature, sexed-up image.

The house itself had not changed at all, but my cousins certainly had.

Stack layers have been replaced by service components and there is so much reuse that the stacks have all but disappeared.

So in this sense fiction isn't a lie at all, but a true representation of the distortion that everyone makes of life.

Strangely, this puts the Google rank of my rant above all but one of his articles'.

A decade later, innovation at Big Blue had all but ceased, and it had no choice but to shrink its mainframe business.

Kobe is one of the fiercest competitors the game has ever seen so it's all but guaranteed that he'll be licking his chops at the rematch.

During the all-but-interminable course of this appalling event, I asked the same question of myself.

In Christchurch proper the mayor, Bob Parker, declared a state of emergency, and the airport has closed to all but relief flights.

I could return to the sleepy embrace of Parkinson's: a companion that had all but slipped out of sight while this episode was in train.

eg. After a while, the drop-in stopped appearing at all, but he would sometimes come around to give the professor advice.

Components could avoid the problem of overloaded names being cached by not using service locators at all, but that would be overkill.

Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

Kelly's original paper is all but unreadable to non math majors.

One group of boys on a bus all but pulled out rulers to measure the length of my nose-so different from theirs.

For a time, Luke and Leia kept their true relation and their parentage a secret from all but their most trusted friends.

One trend that is all but universally accepted is the widening wealth disparity between those at the very top and bottom.

So what. Glad, it is all. But black and blue to me. Do . . .

But on some projects, that may be too high-traffic for all but a few developers to deal with.

All but a handful of papers offer their content free online, so they immediately surrender the cover price of a print copy.

Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

"He'd been out there for an hour. . . we weren't expecting to find him at all, but we just kept going to make sure, " Van Tenac said.

The derelict farm would be plowed one last time, then sown with disappearing and all but unknown prairie seeds, and left to be.

I never used to like coffee at all, but after trying luwak coffee my world changed.

Yes , progress is overdue and patience is all but gone .

The little boy is all but drowned.

Witch-killings all but stopped in South Africa's North Province after such a pension scheme was introduced in the early 1990s.

Since the middle of 2006, undershoots have become the exception, with inflation above 2% in all but a few months (see chart).

"In the 1980s descriptions of children's household chores all but disappeared from parenting magazines, " she said.