Example sentences of "has [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He has all but given up hard physical work on his farm . |
| 3 | Some have taken the view that the increasing centralisation of policy control by government , and the devolution of responsibility to schools and colleges , accompanied by a range of alternative provision such as grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges , has all but made LEAs redundant . |
| 4 | Christopher Gore has all but destroyed his family . |
| 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 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |
| 7 | Anyway , now that you 're having treatment for the myxoedema , the risk of dementia has all but gone . |
| 8 | A number of US companies have been discussing the possibility of a sale with Piper , which has all but stopped production because of cash flow problems . |
| 9 | Council house building has all but stopped , while sales have stripped out the better stock . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October , time has all but run out . |
| 12 | To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 . |
| 13 | The work of the European Commission has all but come to a halt . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left . |
| 16 | Since the 1960s the amount of purely speculative experimental work on aircraft has all but ceased . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided . |
| 19 | Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 20 | In fact , most of the central section has all but disappeared , the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town . |
| 21 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | With the Russian currency so weak , the developing fragile tier of rouble resellers — sourcing and reselling for roubles — has all but disappeared . |
| 24 | When the wire has all but disappeared , it is time to land and refuel ! |
| 25 | The wall has all but disappeared , East German uniforms are on sale in the flea markets and it 's rumoured the Stasi ‘ bug ’ factory is now making hearing aids . |
| 26 | Whilst VisiCalc has all but disappeared from the scene it once set there are a host of new and vigorous contenders for the crown . |
| 27 | The overpowering , sickly sweet smell is all that remains of a way of life , or a form of life , which has all but disappeared . |
| 28 | At a time when prize money — real prize money — has all but disappeared from rallying they are INCREASING the cash on offer for their end of June Burmah Rally in Lurgan Park . |
| 29 | I notice that business programming has all but disappeared from ITV and Channel 4 . |
| 30 | It contains several rare species and is the home of Britain 's rarest spider , the great raft spider , which is known in only one other site in the UK ( at Pevensey in East Sussex ) and has all but disappeared elsewhere in Europe because of the draining of its fenland habitats . |