Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Cook made his first exploratory voyages to the South Seas between 1768 and 1771 , that figure had more than doubled to 450,000 tons . |
| 2 | For example British Aerospace has more than doubled to 375p this year . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , with BTG required by ministers to look to short-term profitability , sources of ready funds for British biotechnology have all but dried up . |
| 4 | ( The value of such trade had more than doubled between 1988 and 1990 , to a record US$705,000,000 , as US firms sought to capitalize on Cuba 's need for new financial partners . ) |
| 5 | PERSONAL debt has more than doubled under the party of thrift and fiscal discipline . |
| 6 | In fact , most of the central section has all but disappeared , the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town . |
| 7 | But , before the devaluation , the Department of Economic Affairs had failed pretty consistently over three years to actually break the monopoly of Treasury advice and the National Plan had all but gone under . |
| 8 | The 24-year-old Scot had all but shelved his Formula One ambitions for a year when the Pacific Racing team , with whom he had negotiated a deal , postponed their plans for a year after a last-minute sponsorship hitch . |
| 9 | The Smooth Operator had all but dropped off the face of the planet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With five ends completed they had opened up a 39-22 lead , and at the halfway mark had all but tied up the title at a convincing 78-37 ahead . |
| 12 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 13 | It was undisciplined but incredibly powerful and , after all , its initial greeting had all but burnt away the shields around his mind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 18 | Within two decades the number of cases reported each year has more than doubled to at least 3,000 . |
| 19 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 20 | 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 . |