Example sentences of "[verb] been all [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 3 | In France , the Socialist Party has been all but destroyed by crushing defeat in the general election in March . |
| 4 | Improved NFS performance also lies at the heart of the company 's desire to recapture ground in the market for heavily networked NFS systems and software which has been all but hi-jacked by the likes of Auspex Systems Inc , Legato Systems Inc , Interphase Corp and Ceram Inc . |
| 5 | Although the convention itself has n't been stripped out of the operating system entirely , the need for it has been all but eliminated . |
| 6 | So sharply have the battle lines been drawn between Soviet , liberal and libertarian historians that fruitful debate between them has been all but impossible . |
| 7 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 8 | In short , the unprecedented growth in world trade referred to earlier has been all but curtailed . |
| 9 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 10 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 11 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 12 | The last dynasty of legitimate Judaic monarchs had been all but extinguished . |
| 13 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 14 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |
| 15 | The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ . |
| 16 | She had been all but asleep and possibly incoherent . |
| 17 | With passenger figures for 1992 up 66% on the previous year following the reopening of the railway from Bitton to Oldland Common , the £30,000 legal costs of obtaining the Light Railway Order have been all but cleared , and now a £10,000 loan has been taken out to purchase half-a-mile of rail which will be used to relay the former Midland Railway line south towards Bath — the flat-bottom rail being laid on concrete sleepers already in store at Bitton Station . |
| 18 | The forests of the Chimanimani mountains , on Zimbabwe 's border with Mozambique , which are among the most species-rich areas of Africa , have been all but destroyed during the 10 years in which the region has been under military control . |
| 19 | Summer is all but gone , school 's in for winter and already there 's movement on the big name concert scene that 's been all but dormant of late . |