Example sentences of "[prep] all [noun] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 43% of all prisoners have absolutely no educational qualifications or job skills . |
| 2 | Whilst 44 per cent of all women work part-time , 70 per cent of temporary women and 79 per cent of the sub-category of seasonal , temporary and casual women do so . |
| 3 | The contention that the human species can experience the sensations and instinctive urgings of all others put together , automatically implies that they carry the leanings towards the communal living such as is evident in the colonies set up by , for example , the social insects . |
| 4 | Parasites of all types have long been known to exert fascinatingly insidious influences on their hosts . |
| 5 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |
| 6 | As the table shows , securities of all kinds feature largely among their assets . |
| 7 | Only four per cent of all men work part-time , but 35 per cent of all temporary men do so . |
| 8 | In such circumstances national courts of all levels remain entirely at liberty to bring a matter before the European Court if they consider it appropriate to do so . |
| 9 | She reports that while only a small proportion of all eighteen-year-olds live independently , a majority of those reared in care have to do so , and these are often ill-prepared , have meagre financial help and currently have limited prospects of finding work . |
| 10 | 7.1 Grammarians of all persuasions have regularly commented on the distinction among qualifying phrases between restrictive and non-restrictive use ; this sometimes has important consequences for interpretation . |
| 11 | Governments of all persuasions have always bought in some services , but this Government have taken the process further . |
| 12 | At club level these divisions are often relaxed as all boards sail together and only a maximum sail size rule is imposed . |
| 13 | When the weather improved , filming went ahead , with all mackintoshes put well out of sight . |
| 14 | Criminal statistics in all countries have consistently shown that more males than females appear before the courts and are convicted for criminal activities . |
| 15 | This is the only occasion when the Secretary of State can direct the Chief Inspector who may in all probability have already commenced an inspector 's investigation . |
| 16 | To say miserably is perhaps a bit unkind because , for someone who is not a climber , he did in all fairness get further than people thought he would . |
| 17 | It is also true that speakers in all classes use more standard variants in formal than in casual speech ( this is known to sociolinguists as styleshift ) . |
| 18 | Financial reports in all organizations have traditionally emphasized the stewardship function . |
| 19 | It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in making , conforming enlarging , restraining , abrogating , repealing , reviving , and expounding of laws , concerning matters of all possible denominations , ecclesiastical or temporal , civil , military , or criminal : this being the place where that absolute despotic power , which must in all governments reside somewhere , is entrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms . |
| 20 | The next night some hundred men from all companies set forth , but were literally massacred by violent gunfire . |
| 21 | While we should at all times act reasonably with the client 's best interests in mind , when such a specific contract is required , it must be extremely clear that the firm acts on behalf of the client and is , as far as the public arena is concerned , not acting in its own right . |
| 22 | The main criteria for taxis is that drivers must at all times act civilly . ’ |
| 23 | This means ( you do n't mind if I simplify matters a tad ? ) that the restorer should at all times do only what she knows may be undoable later by others . |
| 24 | Although enrolment levels for both sexes have increased , girls ' enrolments at all grades remain significantly below those of boys . |
| 25 | She thought that she never wanted to sleep with Jim again , that the bonds of love were snares and that she must at all costs leave as early as possible the next morning and never come back . |
| 26 | It is commonplace in Sweden , for example , that the annual declarations of personal income and of wealth made by all citizens become publicly available documents once they are received by the tax authorities ; a man can conceal his income neither from his wife nor from his neighbour . |
| 27 | If you wish to start on another day , by all means do so ; simply change the order within the week if you so wish . |
| 28 | If you feel able to do the same directly from the original plan , then by all means do so : but we 're advising a reversible template so that each kite half is the same — and there 's no guarantee that the first drawing will achieve that ! |