Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [conj] all " in BNC.

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1 Not something to be removed as quickly as possible so that all is decent again and the proper rituals of mourning can begin .
2 It was eleven o'clock before all the family were in bed , and two o'clock next morning was the latest time to set off with the beehives .
3 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
4 By bidding for half rather than all of LIN there should be no need for McCaw to seek additional funding from BT since its cash resources and existing lines of credit should cover the cost .
5 In serving the interest of some rather than all , the 1988 Education Reform Act may come to be judged as an impediment to the creation of that equality of outcomes so long seen as an essential right of all citizens .
6 And if twins , triplets or multiple pregnancies are expected , some rather than all the fetuses can now be aborted provided there are sufficient grounds to do so .
7 Various Local Acts vary this so that all warehouses without restriction are covered by section 60 .
8 However , the sums of the deficits and surpluses exactly offset one another so that all sectors together have neither a surplus nor a deficit .
9 The CB here would be ‘ dry bed ’ , but it is not necessary — as is often the case — to record this separately since all the necessary information is obtained by recording wet days .
10 ‘ What 's the good weeding this 'ere if all that lot 's coming over all the time ? ’
11 Packages were expensive — in excess of £30,000 in 1982 terms — and in some cases did not offer on-line data entry facilities and were not cost justifiable particularly as all the facilities would not be required .
12 John Clarke ( one of our worship leaders ) and Philip Glassborow wrote Another kind of famine — a ‘ song for the lost ’ which shows another beautifully where all this talk of evangelism should lead us …
13 We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times .
14 For example an intelligence test may be too easy so that all testees have almost perfect scores , or too difficult in that all testees have very low scores , in both cases discrimination will be poor .
15 Liss Runners meet at the Newman Collard Sports Ground , Liss on Sundays at 9.30 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7 p.m. and all abilities are catered for .
16 It was easier to do this because Joe was due home and all the family were happily preparing .
17 Maybe you could try having it cut little by little rather than all in one go .
18 A collective resolution of this sort of worry was at one time to employ someone to patrol the streets all night , calling out " Three o'clock and all 's well ! " or whatever , at regular intervals , providing reassurance to the sleeping citizens in their beds and even more so to any insomniacs .
19 The British Museum has ( or is believed to have ) some 5 or 6 million objects , so that a conventional stock-take of the entire collection could occupy all the qualified staff for five or six years and could be exhaustive only if all other duties were suspended for the duration .
20 They were glad then that all was calm , as he guided them to the harbour they desired ’ ( Psalms 107:29–30 ) .
21 Note that I said ‘ allow ’ it to happen ; if you ‘ try ’ to remember , you will simply become tense again and all your efforts will come to nothing .
22 The Halls have founded a community at Glassdrumman : Baptist-based and born-again Christian , but unlabelled so that all denominations can feel welcome .
23 It would be effective only if all , or at least a majority of firms — especially the large international search businesses — agreed to join .
24 LA assumes that a word can be present only if all of its constituent phonemes are present for one of its pronunciations .
25 So if you could now get together with your people , all the ones together , all the twos together and all the threes together and rearrange the tables in an area of the room where you 'd like to work .
26 The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus .
27 ‘ It 's a wonderful thing that they 're all here and all OK , ’ he said .
28 All outdoors and all free of charge .
29 In northern Borneo , Rafflesia pricei , a species in a genus including the largest-known flowers , R. arnoldii ( R. titan , Rafnesiaceae ) up to 1 m across and all its species parasitic on lianoid species of Tetrastigma ( Vitaceae ) , is pollinated by carrion flies ( bluebottles ) , attracted by sight and scent .
30 Yet the king-duke began to insist from the 1270s onwards that all allods were sub posse et dominio … regis et ducis ( ‘ under the power and dominion of the king-duke ’ ) .
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