Example sentences of "[Wh pn] all [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1810 the management of the whole of the Crown 's landed estates were placed by statute under three Commissioners of Woods , Forests and Land Revenues , to whom all the powers of the two Surveyors-General of Woods and Forests were transferred . |
| 2 | ‘ I think that the tendency of applied science is to magnify injustices until they become too intolerable to be borne , and the average man whom all the prophets and poets could not move , turns at last and extinguishes the evil at its source ’ . |
| 3 | These days the word ‘ tourist ’ is generally associated with the package holiday-maker who follows a known itinerary and for whom all the arrangements are made by a travel company . |
| 4 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 5 | The social fascination of the book lies in the Key , found by Lord Rothschild while going through Dollie de Rothschild 's papers , which explains who all the personages in the fairy tale paintings are . |