Example sentences of "[vb -s] all [subord] [vb pp] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |