Example sentences of "of all [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the superbly wide-ranging anthology of Glass Work last autumn , she has now pulled out all the stops to arrange a further fabulous survey of all that goes into the making of a book . |
| 2 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |
| 3 | A visit to any of the properties in this leaflet will introduce you , at first hand , to many aspects of English history and reveal the extent of all that remains to be discovered . |
| 4 | In this sense , the unpredictability of all that happens in the church is a necessary precondition of freedom . |
| 5 | LIGHT BULBS are a symbol of all that stands between us and the greenhouse effect . |
| 6 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 7 | But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree . |
| 8 | The fruits make up some 60 80% of all those eaten by some of the bird species , which , in years of scarcity , respond by migrating locally , turning to previously ignored foods or by delaying breeding . |
| 9 | The promises and statements made in election programmes are the basis of all those made in the campaign , so by relating these to government statements of their legislative programme , and even more so to actual behaviour in office , we can see if party-based democracies actually do work in this way . |
| 10 | of all those convicted of vehicle theft were aged under 17 . |
| 11 | Clothing is one of the largest sectors of UK industry and is particularly important in Northern Ireland , where total employment in the industry represents a substantial proportion of all those employed in manufacturing . |
| 12 | Railway revenues constituted 8 per cent of the gross national product , and 4 per cent of all those employed in the United States — about 1.7 million people — worked for the railways . |
| 13 | We will do our best to ensure that we maintain a sensible , profitable structure for agriculture in the United Kingdom in the interests of all those employed by it and involved in it . |
| 14 | For of all those peppered by the shotgun blast of criticism that came out of the Cleveland inquiry , where in little more than three months 121 children were diagnosed as actual or possible victims of child sexual abuse , only Dr Higgs still does not know her future and faces effective dismissal . |
| 15 | The Criminal Law Amendment Act which came into effect on July 27 , 1990 , provided notably for a right of appeal of all those condemned to death ( including those already on death row before the new law came into effect ) . |
| 16 | Of all those seated in the office only Buchanan seemed impervious to the heat . |
| 17 | The 42 cases diagnosed aged 60 years or over represent 19% of all those diagnosed in adult life . |
| 18 | Even to the extent that they represent a homogeneous group , people with disabilities and learning difficulties represent less than 0.5 per cent of all those enrolled in colleges of further and higher education . |
| 19 | Women accounted for 19 per cent of all those covered in 1936 and 24 per cent in 1975 . |
| 20 | Maybe such considerations will also mellow our attitude towards the imprisonment of nearly 9,000 men and 500 women ( representing nearly 25 and 45 per cent respectively of all those sentenced to immediate imprisonment ) for theft , handling stolen goods , fraud , and forgery , when the amounts of value involved are nothing in comparison with the millions stolen by offending corporations on whom our criminal justice system has given up . |
| 21 | To the embalmer falls the vital task of altering that attitude of all those engaged on the work around him . |
| 22 | The law required the government to publish a weekly list of all those detained under its terms . |
| 23 | These corps arose from the middle of the nineteenth century in response to the chronic insecurity caused by a Spanish version of the ‘ spoils system ’ : each change of government would lead to the replacement of all those appointed under the previous government by individuals loyal to the new party in power . |
| 24 | It suggested that millions of US children were receiving up to 35 per cent of their entire lifetime dose of carcinogens by the age of five , and calls for cuts in pesticide use , including the phasing out of all those classed by the EPA as carcinogens . |
| 25 | It is even more sickening when official statistics show that one in four of all those suffering from poverty wages in Europe live and work in Britain . |
| 26 | It was of greater significance for young persons : under 25 year olds accounted for 84 per cent of all those working on a temporary basis for this reason . |
| 27 | The one he selected , instantly burst into life and the propeller whizzed round to the utter amazement of all those working in the vicinity . |
| 28 | Those involved with ACET are now helping provide home care for one in four of all those dying with AIDS in the UK and up to 4,000 school pupils a month are now receiving education on the subject . |
| 29 | From their healthy normal levels at the start , mild deficiencies of all three developed after six weeks . |
| 30 | After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home . |