Example sentences of "have [adv] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the only one in Worcestershire — other real ale breweries set up in the county during the nineteen eighties have all since closed down . |
| 2 | Needless to say digital phototypesetting is now the accepted standard and the older methods have all but faded away . |
| 3 | Those accusations are always made by the same people who have all but destroyed public support for the local authority concept because of their blindness to the requirements of good financial management within local authorities . |
| 4 | An indication that many fighters have all but lost any semblance of moral conscience are the frequent violations of the neutrality of medical and humanitarian workers . |
| 5 | Anti-vice campaigners like former boxer , Eddie Neilson have all but cleared up the red-light district . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , with BTG required by ministers to look to short-term profitability , sources of ready funds for British biotechnology have all but dried up . |
| 7 | One quarter of the chamber is under suspicion of involvement , local government has ground to a halt in many parts of the country and public works contracts have all but dried up . |
| 8 | Development programmes have all but ceased . |
| 9 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 10 | A good example of this is the way that some Christians have all but taken over , or perhaps been taken in by , the complete relativism in the modern concept of truth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 13 | Since the adventure of their adolescence , they have had no contact with their mineral friends whom they have all but forgotten . |
| 14 | It is his 81st , is dedicated to the pit communities for which he still cares so deeply even though the pits have all but vanished , and costs £1 for a miner 's sideways look at life which is probably no more . |
| 15 | He needs to work furiously to rebuild his reputation and authority , shattered by a humiliating series of U-turns and political defeats which have all but torn asunder his party and even his Cabinet . |
| 16 | And though bonuses have all but disappeared , basic staff salaries remain too high — and staff numbers have yet to fall below pre-Big-Bang levels . |
| 17 | Japanese banks , once fierce competitors in the British banking market , have all but disappeared . |
| 18 | Membership of the parliamentary party has changed ; the manual workers have all but disappeared . |
| 19 | Not only this , but within the metric system itself there is standardisation , so that some of the terms with which I grew up have all but disappeared . |
| 20 | And in London , where manufacturing industry and trade union strength have all but disappeared , the radicalism of the ‘ new urban left ’ was based on a coalition between white-collar unions and civil organizations built up outside work . |
| 21 | Two other electric vehicles , the tram and the trolleybus have all but disappeared from British streets . |
| 22 | Early rip-offs such as one-minute ( as opposed to 30-second ) billing have all but disappeared , as have contracts for longer than one year . |
| 23 | Round ‘ chutes have all but disappeared , except for supply drops and emergencies in the big world outside bearland , so it is only natural that the popular Parafoil should emerge as a fauna canopy . |
| 24 | These stylistic differences have gradually eroded over the years , and today regional divisions have all but disappeared . |
| 25 | But they have all but disappeared in the West . |
| 26 | Whisky and Salmon , two of the main commodities moved in the past now travel in container and freezer lorries and coastal shipping companies with famous names have all but disappeared . |
| 27 | In many parts of the city , family and community structures have all but collapsed . |
| 28 | I accepted this distinction at once and have ever since regarded it as an indispensable tool of thought . ’ |
| 29 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 30 | I do n't think I have ever before felt quite so much in control and it 's really a powerful sensation … ’ |