1 She all but fainted when she heard the news.

2 The traditional way of life has all but disappeared.

3 By 1980, Miami beach had all but totally eroded.

4 Many journalists here choose to pigeon all but the most innocuous of stories.

5 His left arm was all but useless.

6 She is vice-president in all but name.

7 It was all but impossible to read his writing.

8 She was his wife in all but name.

9 He runs the company in all but name.

10 All but one of the plates were damaged.

11 The party was all but over when we arrived.

12 The job is all but finished!

13 He all but shrieked when he saw her.

14 Britain's coal industry has all but disappeared.

15 The drug produced an improvement in all but one case.

16 The general was an unattractive man to all but his most ardent admirers.

17 As the airline industry shakes out all but the very fittest,[] catering companies could face serious troubles.

18 Europe will be represented in all but two of the seven races.

19 Her forty-fourth birthday had just passed, unnoticed by all but herself.

20 The game was all but over by the time we arrived.

21 I didn't read it all but I think the purport of the letter was that he will not be returning for at least a year.

22 The women wore black veils which covered all but their eyes.

23 Reiner, 56, has all but conceded the race to his rival.

24 The differences were imperceptible to all but the most trained eye.

25 Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.

26 Eventually, all but one of them promised to come to his leaving party.

27 It was all but impossible to climb back into the boat.

28 Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

29 The concrete wall that used to divide this city has now all but gone.

30 It seems that the '60s era of social activism is all but a dim memory.

1 The traditional way of life has all but disappeared.

2 By 1980, Miami beach had all but totally eroded.

31 England's chances of winning the series have all but disappeared.

32 All but one of the passengers were killed in the accident.

33 The new accommodation block has all but masked the original building.

34 By now the war was all but over.

35 However, for Moi, this has all but stopped.

36 Meanwhile, Even has all but publicly announced her candidacy.

37 Bidding continues until all but one eligible candidate remains.

38 Yet in all but a very few, it is people that are the organisation's most costly and most valuable asset.

39 The very thought stiffened her body in his arms and she all but scowled at him.

40 And all but one of them received their first performance appraisal from their superiors in the second half of the year.

41 Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War.

42 Birth control devices and information had never been widely available, and now they all but disappeared.

43 Every UMass player saw action, and all but two played at least 10 minutes.

44 Food be-came more accessible and convenient to all but the poorest families.

45 Many of the buildings in the old town were six storeys high and the lanes so narrow that all but pedestrians were banned.

46 The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.

46 Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

47 Sometimes it seems home baking is a tradition that has all but disappeared.

48 The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.

49 Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once. Mignon McLaughlin 

50 All but a few expressed general agreement with government actions.

51 The stammering policeman spun around, tripped on the rusty pot, and all but crashed to the ground.

52 Roxburgh Castle was proof against all but prolonged siege and heavy artillery.

53 The Communist decision to withdraw its candidates in all but two Parliamentary constituencies aggravated the situation still further.

54 Third, all but the smallest local authorities should appoint a management board of between five and nine members.

55 A box of apparatus for the circus was provided for all but the most recent trials.

56 Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 

57 The hours expanded in deeper and deeper heat, until the air split and the rain was all but blinding.

58 Ian denies all but tells them about Mel sleeping with Phil to get them off his back.

59 At Wolverhampton the carriage had all but emptied, leaving only a sleeping woman cradling a badminton racket.

60 All but the far right have acknowledged the need to develop a more skilled workforce, since whites can no longer fill the demand.

61 She has missed all but two of twelve attempts tonight.

62 Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.

63 All but one of the current justices on the state high court were appointed by the last two Republican governors.

64 They are spreading the idea that the contest is already all but over.

65 You figure you've got a handle on all but the most aberrant human behaviour.

66 It is a simplification to banish all but the principal actors from the international stage.

67 This cave, also known as Diccan Pot, must be regarded as absolutely out of bounds for all but hardy and experienced cavers.

68 He did not mention the other proposed amendments, although in the past he has supported all but one.

69 It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland, all but devoid of life.

70 The license limit has prevented retail chains from selling alcoholic beverages at all but a handful of locations.

71 All but one of these orbit in the asteroid belt, safely beyond the orbit of Mars.

72 Two national magazines, Forbes and Newsweek, have all but predicted its new airport will flop.

73 The players should therefore be treated like the professionals they are in all but name, and be paid for their work.

74 Of the 20 parliamentary members at the Liberal Democrat leader's disposal, all but one will now sit on the front bench.

75 The sepoys must be well aware that the garrison's ammunition was all but finished.

76 I was the only woman on all but two of those twenty boards.Sentencedict

77 A degree of shabbiness in personal attire is now sought, and all but universally among the young.

78 I excused myself and had all but swallowed a Band-Aid with a well-cooked scab nestled in its cushion pad.

79 Theodora noticed the blinds were drawn in all but the central block.

80 They have all but declared war on three government initiatives planned in and around the town.

81 When Taylor asked some of the boys at Midvale to join him in the back country, all but William Fannon refused.

82 She passed several acts to make legal strikes all but impossible, and to imprison her opponents at will.

83 This antiseptic treatment can be used for all but flowers.

84 It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors.

85 When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty.

86 Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer, Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district.

87 Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features. Steve Jobs 

88 And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag.

89 The filth here deters all but the invited guest.

90 Traveling incognito is all but impossible.

91 P-Diddy serves as producer for all but one track.

92 They'll all lie. Leastways all but the nigger.

93 All but my auntie have had lunch.

94 All but the morning star have disappeared.

95 Others use CTCSS to keep all but subscribing members off the repeater.

96 But the result on the Buckingham Palace balcony was undoubtedly hilarity - to all but the Queen.

97 He was cut off from all but a scanty radio communication with his armies.

98 Inflammatory activity was seen in all symptomatic stenoses and inflammation was also seen in the contralateral side in all but one of the patients (95%).

99 Capricorn , Tuesday , 1 September 2009 Saturn 's rings are all but invisible now.

100 The symptoms of senioritis include an all but irresistible urge to cut classes and ignore due dates for homework and presentations.

101 Feng Yun - ching answered hastily , springing up and all but overturning the opiumlamp as he did so.

102 Why, this silky , smooth - faced companion is a very Turk - all but his beard.

103 Mearsheimer, John. Conventional Deterrence. All but the Chapter on the Nato - Pact competition.

104 All but one of these letter bombs had been intercepted by vigilant post office staff.

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

106 For a couple of hours, the White House itself will be empty of all but its permanent domestic staff. William Seale, a White House historian[http://], recalls being in the building at that time.

107 If you look only at promotions and earnings, childless women are all but indistinguishable from men.

108 British people are effectively disenfranchised with little effective control over how they are governed with our law all but inaccessible to ordinary people.

109 But while the dust cloud remains in place over Europe's largest airports, "that is all but impossible," The Economist reported.

110 The most prominent poets of the Victorian period had all but faded from the scene.

111 In all but two of the 10 riskiest cities for homeowners--Orlando and Miami, Fla.--the percentage of homes in foreclosure is lower than that of homes with severely overdue loans.

112 It's the end of the doctrine in all but name.

113 All but one volunteer - who had been abstinent for a year - gambled at least once a week.

114 All but the Australian Terrier and the Miniature Schnauzer were developed in the United Kingdom.

115 The markets have frightened all but the US out of a post - crash flirtation with Keynes.

116 Unlike in past seasons, his insouciant shot-making was also often ruthlessly effective, certainly to the point that Berba's critics were all but silenced.

117 Grozny, Chechnya's capital, was all but obliterated; Russia reassumed power and installed a puppet leader.

118 Who would have thought that America's largest state, a state whose economy is larger than that of all but a few nations, could so easily become a banana republic?

119 Under these all but impossible conditions, Rose of Sharon gave birth to a dead baby.

120 When given to ferrets, it produces a disease whose symptoms are all but identical to the Iowan pig virus.

121 Ads are designed to have an effect while being laughed at, belittled, and all but ignored.

122 Nothing is known of the origins of the dreadnought, the secrets of their construction are all but lost.

123 If all species have been discovered and the lineage of man lies within them, the most probable lineage would include all but the robust Australopithecines and the neandertal.

124 By the end of Nixon's first term, rational discourse on Vietnam had all but stopped.

125 On all but the most favorable soils, Delaware should be grafted on a phylloxera-resistant rootstock to ensure vigorous growth.

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

127 As for the stars themselves, they were in the control of the studio chiefs who could make and break all but stars with really great attraction.

128 In the excitement of battle all but the oldest and steadiest troops are liable to mishandle their weapons.

129 For the semis of the UK Championships, when I was all but dead and buried, that's got to be my best five-frame spell ever.

130 Although government action has unblocked the commercial-paper market, an important source of short-term funding, the cost of tapping it remains very high for all but the healthiest of issuers.

131 He tactfully stayed out of all but the most desultory conversations with the members.

132 As someone said statistics is like a bikini , revealing all but the vitals.

133 Also, avoid using a development desktop as a version management server for all but the smallest projects.

134 All but a few will say amen to his proposal.

135 Though the lake's waters are too salty for all but a few hearty species, including brine shrimp and brine flies, its wetlands support millions of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl.

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

137 All but ten were represented by a head of state or government.

138 Making hard choices is all but impossible when political gamesmanship is at the fore.

139 The right wrist of the sheriff was all but dislocated.

140 Automatic allocation and garbage collection all but eliminates resource leaks in applications.

141 When we are in buoyant health , death is all but unimaginable.

142 The Quietus reports that earlier this year, Jackson sold all but 5% of his remaining 25% share in Sony/ATV – in an attempt to improve his financial situation.

143 The plant will stand all but the worst winters out of doors.

144 But there is disenchantment with markets in Colombia, even though the country all but escaped recession.

145 Enough methods now exist to solve all but the most intractable cases.

146 Further, all but one of the inventors are from Los Alamos, New Mexico.

147 SD : Well, for sure we are not happy at all but that the the situation.

148 The border with NSW remains closed to thoroughbred and leisure horses in all but exceptional cases.

149 Environmentalists raise the spectre of Central Asia's Aral Sea, all but drained by Soviet irrigation projects.

150 The two-legged, spiky-backed, blood-sucking alien-type chupacabra all but ceased to exist, replaced by the hairless doglike animals we see today.

151 He was indeed at this time having the Central Office cleared of all but his vassals.

152 Another all but irreversible step is taken toward the total Welfare State.

153 The wild ginseng of Manchuria and Korea, hunted assiduously for centuries, is now all but extinct.

154 For most younger readers, it will seem all but unimaginable.