Example sentences of "all [subord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This astute choice by Mr Tofa , creating a balanced ticket of Muslim and Christian , has all but secured the NRC 's dominance in the east . |
| 2 | But despite fears that rain over the weekend had all but ended The Fellow 's cross-channel raid , yesterday 's drying wind has encouraged connections . |
| 3 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 4 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 5 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 6 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 7 | Instead of learning more about how people function in a world whose intellectual demands are growing , the US has all but outlawed the data , encouraged to do so by what it encounters in the national press . |
| 8 | Last season , Stan Sivell had all but picked the spot on his mantlepiece where the trophy would stand when Norfolk took all 15 points on offer in an amazing triumph over the champions-elect . |
| 9 | New wards and accommodation blocks , laboratories and car-parks have all but masked the original building , whilst within it spacious airy wards , huge staircase halls and corridors have been extensively partitioned and bear no resemblance to their original plan . |
| 10 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 11 | While composers such as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen condemned all manifestations of the museum culture , and Boulez suggested that opera houses should be burned down , the slender supply of new operas was left either to an older , impervious generation or to composers whose attitude to tradition was either complexly ambivalent ( Henze ) or had all but bypassed the modernist lineage ( Britten and Tippett ) . |
| 12 | Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth . |