Example sentences of "everything in its " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to the Australian Stock Exchange , the company said it would ‘ vigorously oppose the appointment that has been made and will do everything in its power to have the receivership rescinded . ’ |
| 2 | The NFU 's duty is to do everything in its power to secure the long-term position of the industry within the European and world markets . |
| 3 | The urge to order the natural world appears to be an innate characteristic of human beings : ‘ a place for everything and everything in its place ’ . |
| 4 | When it did , a solid wall of water , twenty feet deep , would sweep down the old bed , crushing everything in its way , hitting the highway with the force of an express train . |
| 5 | We were fortunate to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4x4 Estate for our weekend trip , which , with its sure-footed permanent four-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |
| 6 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 7 | This peculiarly unpleasant mixture combined to become a mudflow , which over-ran everything in its path ; in particular a large sugar processing plant , the Usine Guerin , which stood on a tongue of flat land in the valley of the Riviere Blanche , surrounded by sugar-cane plantations . |
| 8 | The wave had had its ropes cut and was erupting in an avalanche of fury that would bury everything in its path . |
| 9 | ‘ A place for everything and everything in its place ’ is my motto |
| 10 | Love is not the impure self-seeking that chokes everything in its wake . |
| 11 | The images so vague in his mind were now quite clear and distinct but he had to be certain : the solution must be presented like a concise clear legal document , everything in its right place and , unfortunately , there were still gaps to be filled and ragged ends tidied up . |
| 12 | The modern-day locator has everything in its favour — provided only that it is fitted with a functioning battery . |
| 13 | ‘ In terms of Colosseum , I was required to hold everything in its place , because Jon Hiseman was drumming up a storm , being very busy , as was Gary Moore on guitar and , to an extent , Don Airey on keyboards . |
| 14 | He liked everything in its place , wanted his kandoras or suffras , T-shirts or slacks pristine and neatly folded . |
| 15 | It was a wafer-thin majority for a Prime Minister who had invested everything in its outcome . |
| 16 | With so much at stake it is understandable that the Department of Trade and Industry is doing everything in its power to avoid all-out war . |
| 17 | We were fortunate enough to have the loan of a new Citroën BX 4×4 Estate for our weekend trip which , with its sure-footed permanent 4-wheel drive , impeccable road manners and self-levelling suspension , had taken everything in its stride , — including , thanks to its optional electronic ABS braking system , stopping quickly and safely when we suddenly encountered a 5 mile tail back in a contra-flow on the M1 . |
| 18 | Her woollen hat was lying on a chair : she was a tidy woman , over-tidy ; there was a place for everything and everything in its place , was her motto . |
| 19 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 20 | So , the jealousy does not form a subject of his thought , one among many , but a lens which filters , colours , interprets everything in its own way . |
| 21 | Diana , who described the ‘ horror ’ of drugs and alcoholism , added : ‘ Addiction is a fast-growing malignancy which destroys almost everything in its path . |
| 22 | Philip 's emotional background was tight , controlled , everything in its proper place , unhappy and deeply unaffectionate . |
| 23 | The strategic concept had everything in its favour ; for success it required efficient planning and ruthless aggression . |
| 24 | It has all the advantages of a cannon plus the ability to rumble forward through the middle of enemy formations crushing everything in its path . |
| 25 | Conner Peripherals Inc has decided that it does n't want everything in its Cipher Data Systems acquisition and has signed a letter of intent to sell two Cipher product lines to San Diego-based half inch tape drive maker Overland Data Inc for $9m . |
| 26 | For , first , this method springs from Moore 's awareness of an important truth , namely that if we see the point of everything in its being a means to something else we empty the world of value . |
| 27 | Cleanliness may be the basic aim , with untidiness tolerated ; or there may be an attitude of ‘ a place for everything and everything in its place ’ while the dust under the beds and the dirt hidden in crevices pass relatively unnoticed . |
| 28 | But he could be touchpaper , and a spark from a fancied slight , a disagreement over politics , a moment of heedlessness from someone , and he would catch and soon the conflagration was at full blast consuming everything in its path : new friendships , old friendships , new clients , his reputation , his wife 's love , even that . |
| 29 | But then the alien disease , like a parasite , takes hold again and for a time destroys everything in its path : all hope , all trust , all honesty , all love , all relationships . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's no other person who would first fall in love with a house and then do up the house inspired by its period details , putting everything in its proper place according to the house 's architecture , history and setting . |