Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their previous league match two weeks ago , they had travelled to Leicester knowing that a win would all but give them the championship , but that day they slumped to a surprise 3–2 defeat . |
| 2 | The Financial Times report maintained that the deal " should all but eliminate cereal export subsidies — the real rock on which the Uruguay Round [ of trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade — GATT — was ] foundering " [ see pp. 38888-89 ] . |
| 3 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 4 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 5 | Yet there is at least one moment at which Revelation seems very close and allegory does all but break through — naturally enough , a moment of ‘ eucatastrophe ’ , to use Tolkien 's term for sudden moments of fairy-tale salvation . |
| 6 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 7 | Clothing designers from the ‘ cutting edge ’ of their profession believe that slavery to fashion will all but disappear in the Nineties . |
| 8 | And I can all but hear her laugh in my ears , too . |
| 9 | If negotiated cuts in central Europe do in fact put Warsaw-pact troops on a defensive footing , Hungary 's army , now 100,000 strong , would all but lose its job as flank guard for a Russian thrust west . |
| 10 | He did all but say , ‘ Stop messing about . ’ |
| 11 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 12 | Such a catalogue inevitably tends to describe and characterise artists rather than evaluate them , while interpretation is likely to be left to quotations from the artists . |
| 13 | Even when American analysts admit that the USSR has access rather than base rights in Cam Ranh Bay and Danang they argue that the apparent permanency of its presence in these ports means that this access has effectively provided the USSR with its only operating military base between Vladivostok and the East coast of Africa . |
| 14 | Spanking may actually stamp in , rather than eliminate , your child 's misbehaviour . |
| 15 | Rather than eliminate any further jobs on top of the 1,000 that the company has budgeted to shed this year , IBM UK Ltd chief executive Nick Temple is expected to ask senior staffers to bear some of the pain and accept pay reductions — and it could happen : Temple has been telling anyone who will listen that if IBM UK makes a penny profit this year , it will be the most amazing turnround in corporate history . |
| 16 | Education may enhance the ability to produce justifications , rather than eliminate racism tout court . |
| 17 | If that is wrong , let them tell us why , rather than differentiate between dead bodies on the basis of whether a diagnosis was made before or after death , or whether the patient stops breathing in the accident and emergency department rather than a medical ward . |
| 18 | When faced with a request for a garden seat , similar to the one on a recent DIY front cover , I searched high and low for one which I could buy , rather than make myself . |
| 19 | The CBI rejects warnings that companies will hide behind the new anti-hacking laws , rather than make efforts to keep intruders out in the first place . |
| 20 | Rather than make changes to aerodynamic efficiency to reduce speeds , why not go the whole hog and kill two birds with one stone ? |
| 21 | The advance word on Communion was that it wanted to deal in the uncanny again , to unsettle its audiences rather than make them laugh knowingly , yet here it was with something that belonged in a Joe Dante movie . |
| 22 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 23 | There are various ways of improving the lot of hens but we do need to ask the hens themselves rather than make up their minds for them . |
| 24 | Presumably he should have shot her or let her drown , rather than make a present of her to the French , but there were some things Karelius could not bring himself to do . |
| 25 | So pray for him as much as you talk to him ; raise questions rather than make statements ; use the rapier and not the sledgehammer ; care for him rather than judge him . |
| 26 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 27 | Ask rather than make assumptions . |
| 28 | There was no fairness on earth if someone who would appreciate it and work hard was kept out just because of a greedy , uncaring family who would prefer to forget the child of an unsuitable union rather than make a generous gesture and ensure that some right was done at the end of the day . |
| 29 | If this is a valid criticism , rather than make an excuse accept it , apologise and offer a reason — a true reason if you can . |
| 30 | Seek professional advice if needs be , rather than make a valiant attempt yourself and then regret it . |