Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 2 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 3 | In fact , most of the central section has all but disappeared , the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town . |
| 4 | Ministers argue that the total expenditure on legal aid has more than doubled in five years , from £49 million in 1987 to a forecast total this year of £104 million . |
| 5 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 6 | The stone marten has readily moved into buildings and even urban landscapes , and the native European mink has all but vanished . |
| 7 | Sheffield Wednesday 's makeshift striker has all but clinched a big money move to Ewood Park at the second attempt just three weeks after signing a new four-year contract at Hillsborough . |
| 8 | Weill correctly perceived that the voice of the American nation was to be found in the musical , but as this form commanded no intellectual respect , the musical establishment has ever since accused him of selling out politically as well as musically . |
| 9 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
| 10 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 11 | It is a political tragedy that this whole subject has all but disappeared from the world 's agenda under the impact of the past three astonishing years in Europe . |