Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [vb base] all " in BNC.

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1 The Next Directory is doing good mail-order fashion business and savage cost-cutting in the group 's buying policy and its high-street shops have all helped to produce profits of £8.3 million in the six months to August .
2 Existing biolayer/transducer combinations have all achieved ‘ proof of principle ’ capability , and look promising in bioanalysis .
3 Notably the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 , the FSA 1986 , the Basle Concordat and capital adequacy arrangements have all meant that the Bank has lost a certain amount of discretion in implementing supervision ( see Chapter 12 )
4 Last capped against Fiji in Suva more than four years ago , he has made only eight England appearances — and his four Five Nations games have all been as a replacement .
5 The IMF , the World Bank and bilateral national aid donors have all allocated an increasing proportion of their annual commitments to lending of this type .
6 Minke whales , sperm whales , and killer whales have all been reported stranded on Australian and New Zealand beaches with their stomachs or throats full of plastic bags or sheets .
7 Governments , military strategists , thousands of scientists , millions of dollars of time and research budgets have all been on a wild goose chase .
8 Council houses have all been bought up .
9 Recent rights issues , takeovers and even foreign exchange losses have all been sprung on an unsuspecting public rather than , as was the pattern in the mid-1980s , infiltrating the market through the columns of the Sunday newspapers .
10 Economic changes , the growth of commuting , and migration movements have all helped to modify the social structure of rural areas .
11 With its combination of beauty , beaches , culture and history , it has been long been a favourite holiday destination and its hot temperatures have drawn sun seekers form all over the world .
12 The England players have all been friendly enough .
13 Senior managers , working groups , working parties and a host of peer reviews have all been involved .
14 Frogs love it , and in springtime birds swarm all over it , making off with beaksful of what must be nature 's most luxurious nest lining material !
15 Four of the country 's main peat retailers have all undertaken to stop supplying peat from SSSIs .
16 In many parts of the city , family and community structures have all but collapsed .
17 Central vent eruptions occur all over the world , on the mid-ocean ridge volcanoes , at destructive plate margins , and along the African rift valleys ; there is no particular environment which is specially favourable to them .
18 He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before .
19 But leisure journeys weave all over the place .
20 Since the March 1982 elections , the decree laws have all remained in force , despite a united trade union protest calling for their withdrawal .
21 These usually circular or oval grass covered wall foundations occur all over the island and vary in size from about ten feet to forty feet in diameter and can be found alone or in small groups .
22 These factors plus preferential marketing arrangements and external financial support for development projects have all contributed to land degradation .
23 Development programmes have all but ceased .
24 For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties .
25 Miss Menzies felt certain it was in the garage at Mr Steen 's Orme Gardens house all over the weekend .
26 Senior politicians , key property figures and leading City merchant banks have all taken part in the talks .
27 Planning-programming-budgeting systems , public expenditure surveys , programme analysis and review , the rationalization of budgetary choice and other planning devices have all failed to displace established bureaucratic procedures and elites .
28 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 .
29 In London the Women 's Film and TV Network , Converse Pictures , Women in Sync and Aphra Workshops have all lost their funding and closed their doors in the last few years .
30 Love bites go all around the body
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