Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of national service , Commonwealth immigration , the entry into the labour market of the ‘ baby boom ’ generation , and the increasing numbers of married women remaining in or returning to work all provided additional supplies of labour . |
| 2 | Although the loss of the transports assembled or under construction at Le Havre delivered a serious blow to the French plans , others were still being built or collected at ports all along the Bay of Biscay , from Lorient [ or L'Orient ] to Bayonne , including Nantes , La Rochelle and Bordeaux , and the plan , as the English government knew , was for them to assemble at Brest , where the Commander-in-Chief of the naval side of the invasion , Admiral Conflans [ Hubert de Brienne , Comte de Conflans ] had arrived in early July . |
| 3 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 4 | I 'd have given birth to twins and discovered what song the Sirens sang , and vaporized and condensed and fallen as snow all over central Calcutta . ’ |
| 5 | After the expiry of the Palestine mandate entrusted to Britain at the 1920 San Remo conference , the state of Israel , founded in May 1948 and since then cherished and sustained by jews all over the world , entered the state of war with its Arab neighbours which has persisted ever since , further stimulated by the activities of Palestinian militants and their sympathizers both in the occupied territories and farther afield . |
| 6 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |
| 7 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 8 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 9 | Then I went to Cambridge , and fell in love all over again with its more flaunting charms . |
| 10 | They chose to dismantle themselves and start from scratch all over again , rather than take the easy route of formulaic consolidation of their position . |
| 11 | Between them they cut thousands of samples each year , binding the edges to stop fraying , applying heat sealed labels with an iron and despatching to destinations all over the country . |
| 12 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |