Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] for all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the Whigs who won the general election ; and they returned to office committed to parliamentary reform , the measure which for all the variety of the causes of social unrest and of the disorders they prompted , came increasingly to be the focus of the general demand for change . |
| 2 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 3 | Frank 's incorrigible efforts at flirtation had become tiresome to her and , the truth of the matter was , he was no great dandy on the ice himself for all his mockery . |
| 4 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 5 | He did well with the theatre and the media lot because he treated them contemptuously , co-opting Rory Collins as a fellow scourge of sloppy liberals , a man who for all his cash and flash was the real thing , the sort of guy you 'd go into the jungle with , the sort of guy who was his father 's son . |
| 6 | Supple entwinement through the living moss which for all that I knew might have no end , Image of an endless embrace |
| 7 | One prostitute said : ‘ I do n't like what I do , I hate what I do , but there is no beating it for all the money you can get . |
| 8 | He is more poet than academic , or professional religious , and it is precisely because of his wilful integrity and gift for language that he is able to share a sense of the actual process — frequently frustrating — of the practice of spiritual discipline which for all the mystics is the weapon in the battle against the forces of darkness that self-evidently threaten to destroy human fulfilment . |