Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you will charge to my account annually until cancelled the subscription price — currently £14.70 . |
| 2 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 3 | Tizard ( 1977 ) , whilst rightly arguing that new families need to be totally in control of the way they bring up their adopted children , is also prepared to concede that ‘ just as there are some couples willing to adopt handicapped children , others , especially if given the support of other adoptive parents , may be willing to adopt children who retain links with their natural families ’ . |
| 4 | In the clinical area , learners develop their practical and social skills , but at the same time develop a full sense of responsibility , especially if given the guidance and support they need to become safe and competent practitioners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Strategic air power had all but won the Second World War . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The 1983 general election result fueled rather than ended the controversy . |
| 18 | This decision started rather than ended the controversy about united action . |
| 19 | In other words , the decline in profits preceded rather than followed the expansion of the public sector as regards both employment and expenditure . |
| 20 | Something had punched her chest ; she felt the refrigeration unit of her suit cut in , she felt rather than heard the tearing , rippling , screaming boom of the explosion . |
| 21 | Bernice felt rather than heard the two explosions , like a double heartbeat , and then the corridor was filled with flames . |
| 22 | She sensed rather than heard the collective sigh of relief that went up as her acceptance rang round the studio just a moment before the signature tune flowed through the headphones , signalling the end of the programme . |
| 23 | Moreover , the Stewart kings ' lamentable habit of dying young had two consequences , both of which enhanced rather than diminished the strength and prestige of Scottish kingship . |
| 24 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 25 | Too often NatWest has followed rather than led the way in banking , and too often its strategy has been faulted in execution . |
| 26 | For the first time , a mentally handicapped child has been built into a programme about normal people living in normal lives , rather than made the subject of a sensational film or documentary . |
| 27 | For them the din increased rather than destroyed the intimacy of conversation . |
| 28 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 29 | The Soviet Union , these critics argue , was uninterested in Republican victory and unwilling to provide sufficient resources to make it possible ; to make matters worse , the anti-revolutionary policies and generally repressive conduct of the Communists , by robbing much of the population within Republican Spain of anything for which to fight , brought about massive demoralization and weakened rather than strengthened the bases of the anti-fascist struggle . |
| 30 | Second , by averaging the payments made to local authorities , the new arrangements loosened rather than strengthened the links between local authorities and businesses in their areas ( Midwinter and Mair 1987:97 — 102 ) . |