Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 2 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 3 | When the Hon. Gentleman has seen all the details , he should compare them with what went on in the valleys when he was a Minister . |
| 4 | The boy who nursed his dying mum has devoted all his life to the destitute |
| 5 | Dworkin himself suggests that no one has an individual right to have enforced all the laws of the nation , only those which he would have a right to have enacted if they were not already law . |
| 6 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |
| 7 | The Central Bank has frozen all remittances of profits , dividends and interest . |
| 8 | She left the following year having exhausted all the tuition the school could offer . |
| 9 | Luke 's dismissal of Elise as a mere client had rekindled all her misgivings . |
| 10 | It was a time to dry out , three days of solid rain having dampened all but our spirits , and to finish our excess of the other kind of spirits before attempting to cross the border . |
| 11 | I think I already knew then that I would not return to my job at the Polytechnic , for the security of that monthly cheque had lost all meaning . |
| 12 | One sorry looking creature had lost all its feathers . |
| 13 | My quick sleep had deleted all |
| 14 | This little bird had travelled all the way from its breeding grounds on the Arctic tundra to its wintering quarters in the Falkland Islands ! |
| 15 | One hundred years ago , however , mistrust of the medical profession and loss of belief that divine providence had decreed all our exits from the stage , combined in some sensitive souls to produce a state of mind akin to panic . |
| 16 | Bush ended the primary process having won all 38 of the Republican contests , matching the record established by Richard Nixon in 1972 and Ronald Reagan in 1984 , both of whom later won landslide victories in the presidential elections . |
| 17 | It was as though the wind and tide had decided to have a good rest having expended all its fury achieving the high water mark . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ he mumbled , ‘ the great frost has killed all trade in the city . |
| 19 | The American Princess — even the poor doctor has heard all about her , and then you came into my home … |
| 20 | The Prime Minister has made all those promises . |
| 21 | At crisis talks in London , the Prime Minister has warned all sides involved in the strife in the former Yugoslavia that they must compromise or face total isolation . |
| 22 | She said it again , spitting a cat 's venom , a snake 's venom at him , menacing him with claws and teeth and a most glorious savagery , her eyes out of focus perhaps but glittering like jewels , her supple , slender , long-legged body having lost all consciousness of its nakedness , her firm , high , amber-skinned breasts rising in their fury ; doubly enticing . |
| 23 | The courageous two-year-old has spent all his short life in hospital . |
| 24 | This is not to say that general practice has solved all its problems , for an old contradiction remains unresolved . |
| 25 | Peaty gleys and peat are codominant soils on this land , with peaty rankers occupying rock knolls where glacial erosion has removed all drifts . |
| 26 | By contrast , the consequences and so competences , and hence the adequacies or inadequacies , of natural selection , especially for long-run effects , were practically impossible to decide , at least for a finite intellect ; although the young Darwin himself could consistently suppose that God in choosing this means for adapting life to a changing earth had foreseen all its consequences . |
| 27 | THE EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO PUBLISHES THE INFORMATION GIVEN HERE AS SUPPLIED TO IT BY THE OPERATORS WHOSE FACILITIES ARE ADVERTISED AND ALTHOUGH THE EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO HAS TAKEN ALL REASONABLE STEPS TO ENSURE THAT , AT THE DATE OF GOING TO PRESS , SUCH INFORMATION WAS ACCURATE , NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION IS GIVEN IN THIS RECORD . |
| 28 | He must have a computerised brain to have absorbed all that information over a period of years without having compiled a ‘ silly tick list ’ himself . |
| 29 | This two-year transitional period has caused all kinds of problems for the people of Eritrea . |
| 30 | This two-year transitional period has caused all kinds of problems for the people of Eritrea . |