Example sentences of "that [prep] all the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a horse and cart and he 'd go to Norwich and bring home all the parcels and that for all the tradesmen here in Bungay . |
| 2 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 3 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 4 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 5 | But er that was a commonplace thing he used to do that for all the kids . |
| 6 | Italo Calvino 's last complete book , Mr Palomar ( 1985 ) , opens to the movement of waves and the look of a solitary observer whose gaze attempts to follow the progress of one single wave in its passage , separated and isolated from that of all the others , from open sea to shore . |
| 7 | The underlying motivation behind this selection was that of all the sentences this was the one which provided the neatest summary of the entire story . |
| 8 | It has been said , for example , that of all the species alive in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania at the time early man arrived there , only 60 per cent survived to the present day . |
| 9 | He found that of all the nutrient criteria , the two that were best able to predict reproductive success were protein intake and energy intake . |
| 10 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 11 | Why might it be claimed that of all the criticisms of the CAPM , only that of Roll constitutes a serious theoretical attack ? |
| 12 | It 's some consolation to reflect that of all the UK citizens undergoing the death experience , Leo was probably the one most prepared for it . |
| 13 | Roeder portrayed him as ‘ an unassuming toiler ’ , ‘ His comprehensive knowledge of the Lakes stood above that of all the men of his time , not excepting Wordsworth ’ . |
| 14 | Most agree that of all the candidates for the directorship of the National Gallery , Rusty Powell is perhaps the least art-historically rounded , despite having written several well received catalogue essays on American nineteenth-century paintings and a recently published monograph on Thomas Cole . |
| 15 | The problems of converting industries designed for peacetime production to the manufacturing of military equipment were immense , but by 1944 US war production was double that of all the Axis powers combined . |
| 16 | We were agreed that of all the billeting areas , Bedford would probably be our choice . |
| 17 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 18 | Then , quite out of the blue , there had come the offer of a job at Marlborough ; for although I had resolved to abandon teaching , I had found , like so many others , that of all the means of earning one 's bread , freelance authorship was among the most precarious . |
| 19 | As a committee member of the Beltex Sheep Society UK , one of the two rival societies promoting the breed in Britain , Mr Barnes is naturally convinced that of all the Texel types available to the commercial prime lamb producer the Beltex has the most to offer . |
| 20 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 21 | That the population of the parish and village of Bowmore amounts to about three thousand souls ; and that of all the population not more than three hundred regularly attend church . |
| 22 | You have this sandwich like , like that with all the salad stuff in it . |
| 23 | I believe that you will be well able to represent the views of the members of this mailing list so there is not much I can add except perhaps a comment , that with all the transfers at the club in the recent past , that the team is perhaps unsettled and that gaining the championship this season seems difficult . |
| 24 | He concluded that the interpretation of the word ‘ sexual ’ might well ‘ involve the court in consideration of sexology and human sexual behaviour ’ but that above all the court should approach the matter ‘ with commonsense and basic societal values . ’ |
| 25 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 26 | Would n't it be nice if there were more surprises like that in all the assemblies of the godly ? |
| 27 | Or is that just is that on all the time ? |
| 28 | I bet you say that to all the ladies ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I bet you say that to all the jockeys . ’ |
| 30 | We did that to all the staff , it was a sort of Cinderella story . |