Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] all [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , expressed guilt may be so deep as to become delusional , generalised to the point where the individual believes that he or she is personally responsible for some major catastrophe or for all of the evil that exists in the world . |
| 2 | About the middle of the month Nils discovered metal fatigue in two of the seacocks , the worst being the inflow to the heads , which meant that for all of a week , till we could slip yet again and fit replacements , we were using a good old-fashioned shit bucket . |
| 3 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 4 | That 's what the section committee is there for and the C E C after balancing these arguments decided that with all of the limitations , with all of the stretching of points and so on , on that basis , we should come down and recommend to you that only people who work in the section should be eligible for election . |
| 5 | It is also to be noted that in all of the cases above the to infinitive expresses , not a particular happening , but something characteristic of the person referred to . |
| 6 | The irony is that in all of the experiments on test-tube fusion that began in 1989 following the March announcements , and which variously claimed fusion evidence from heat or from radiant neutrons , no measurable production of helium ever took place . |
| 7 | Send that to all at the Crosskeys at , the Chester your worships . |
| 8 | From time to time somebody would burst into song or laughter , and some people continued to whisper on and off all through the night . |
| 9 | This was once Oloron 's cathedral , in the centuries up until 1790 , when the French Revolution did away once and for all with the bishopric . |
| 10 | Added Miss McIntosh : ‘ It is a very sad day for Stansted Airport , for Essex and for all of the country if American Airlines do indeed pull out . ’ |
| 11 | It is regarded as " tax revenue allocated once and for all to the Community to finance its budget and accruing to it automatically without the need for any subsequent decision by the national authorities ' ( European Commission 1989b ) . |
| 12 | Equating grade C with a pass was just historical , harking back to the days of the O-level , he explained , and the Government was keen to get away once and for all from the pass/fail idea . |
| 13 | Nicholas 's government underrated the concern felt by Britain , France , and her traditional ally Austria over Russia 's growing influence in the Balkans , and above all over the possibility that Constantinople might fall under her sway . |
| 14 | It is written in Latin to someone in authority to ask for warmer clothes and above all for the return of his Hebrew Bible , grammar and dictionary . |
| 15 | They want to be relaxed and businesslike in the classroom and above all for the pupils to be willingly engaged in the process of learning . |
| 16 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 17 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 18 | They had to be flexible , too , adjusting to the new post-war broadcast medium of television ; then to a new scale and range of programmes , increasingly controversial , and to changes in the society they served ; and above all to the introduction of what at first was known as ‘ commercial television ’ in 1955 . |
| 19 | Their Neolithic context is confirmed by occurrences in the cairn of Cairnholy , south-west Scotland , in the causewayed enclosure at High Peak , Devonshire , and above all on the course of the Sweet timber trackway in the Somerset Levels dated in radiocarbon years to c. 3200 B.C. The absence of any trace of haft or binding under conditions exceptionally favourable for the survival of organic materials and the lack of the slightest sign of wear suggest that the jadeite celt was deposited as an unhafted and unused blade to fulfil a symbolic role . |
| 20 | Once Richard had begun to negotiate directly with Philip it was relatively easy for the King of France to play upon his fears , and above all on the fear engendered by the common gossip that the Old King wanted to disinherit him and confer the crown upon John . |
| 21 | At each level of the system we found claims to breadth and balance undermined by countervailing policies and practices : by Authority special projects favouring some areas at the expense of others ; in central INSET provision ; in PNP development fund allocations ; in the distribution of posts of responsibility in schools ; in school-based INSET ; in the status of postholders and the time they had to undertake their curriculum leadership responsibilities ; in the areas of the curriculum subjected to review and development ; in teacher expertise ; and above all in the quality of children 's classroom experiences . |
| 22 | At certain times , notably in the spring of 1933 , the summer of 1935 , and above all in the autumn of 1938 , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ had a high profile . |
| 23 | It merely conceals the true reality of power that resides untouched by democracy in the rest of the state apparatus and above all in the market economy itself . |
| 24 | His name and achievements became better known to the general public , however , in the sphere of lighter music : in operetta rather than in opera , and above all in the stage works of Franz Lehár , in which he charmed thousands by his sympathetic tenor quality and by the grace and variety of his vocal inflections . |
| 25 | She had been truly moved by herself , by her own watery image , by her grotesquely elongated legs , her tapering waist , and above all by the undersides of her breasts , never before seen . |
| 26 | He was struck by the way in which Muni had depicted the suffering , the bewilderment , and the anger of a simple man , by the way in which the atmosphere and pressures of a strike-bound community had been created , and above all by the reality of the violence , which was a thing ‘ that shrieks along a man 's nerves and settles in his stomach ’ . |
| 27 | It has been overtaken by the undreamt-of scale of mass travel , by the internationalisation of crime , in particular terrorism , and above all by the ubiquity of information technology . |
| 28 | In all of the stories of enchantment and in all of the legends of bewitchment , there is one that stands above the rest . |
| 29 | A clear dominant electrical control frequency close to 3 cycles per minute was found in three of the subjects with chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction and in all of the control subjects . |
| 30 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |