Example sentences of "all [conj] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 2 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 3 | Cardboard City all but vanished in the daytime , and reappeared like a gypsy camp at night . |
| 4 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 5 | Her whisper , all but drowned in the hiss of the flames , sounded fluttery and frail . |
| 6 | BASICALLY , THESE are the blues after they got molested , divested and all but drowned in the swamps ; to this end the Babes are the inheritors of The Birthday Party 's unholy rule book . |
| 7 | Her meanings all but drowned in the immensity of it all . |
| 8 | But they have all but disappeared in the West . |
| 9 | The authority of the Azerbaijan CP had all but collapsed in the face of the latest upsurge of Popular Front support . |