Example sentences of "all [adv] [adj] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By December of the same year they had two similar groups and by March 1988 , three and at this stage they began to meet all together monthly for a celebration . |
| 2 | Further potential for ill-feeling and hardship arises when the tenants are all jointly responsible for the rent but one decides to move without warning , creating a rent hardship for those who remain . |
| 3 | In 191O the Commandant of the French Staff College , exemplifying the orthodox military mind , declared that ‘ the aeroplane is all very well for a sport , for the army it is useless ’ . |
| 4 | It was all very well for a gentleman to talk about Treason and France and Tom Paine — and he was taking care to do it where nobody was around — but one nod of agreement from him and the world could crash down on his head . |
| 5 | It was all very well for the government in Moscow to lay down severe penalties for its servants who maltreated the natives . |
| 6 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 7 | It was all very well for the princesses . |
| 8 | It was all very well for the Super to smile his superior smile and say things like ‘ Culturally , Tallboy , it lifts it out of the common rut of murders , would n't you agree ? |
| 9 | Five days later the snow melted , and on the morning of 11 February the second massive flood in seven months overtook them ; it was all very well for the town directory to speak in glowing terms of the River Frome teeming with trout , eels , and all manner of fine fish — but to the inhabitants of Pig Street that wretched river too often spelt disaster and despoliation . |
| 10 | It was all very well for the intellectuals to associate the movies with the mindless masses , but the masses who went to cinemas in the 1920s were rather different from the masses who had so enthused about films twenty years earlier . |
| 11 | This was all very worrying for the reformers in the government who though applauding the young people 's sense of nationalistic duty rejected their misgivings about the open-door policy . |
| 12 | This is all very limiting for the pilot but it does mean that the investigator is able to know exactly what the pilot is , or should be , doing at any stage in the flight . |