Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [adv] but " 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 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 3 | The idea of publication had been all but strangled by the rejection of ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 6 | An extended parking area has enabled the restoration or eroded downland where formerly the grass had been all but lost to cars . |
| 7 | The Doctor had been all but forgotten by the Chelonians , which suited him perfectly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In France , the Socialist Party has been all but destroyed by crushing defeat in the general election in March . |