Example sentences of "all [conj] [pron] [vb base] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Fundamentally , all that we have a right to expect from our theory is a battleground of replicators , jostling , jockeying , fighting for a future in the genetic hereafter .
2 However , as your elected officers we do feel responsible for ensuring that as a national organisation ; we continue to survive and grow which means above all that we have a continual influx of new members .
3 Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots .
4 In fact the Carpet Band are n't shit at all and they prompt a series of stage invasions that persist until singer Tom Hingley threatens to leave the stage .
5 Hurtling around on the rollercoaster builds values to one million points , and helps to highlight letters in the ‘ Palace ’ ( light 'em all and you get the jackpot ) .
6 all and you do a lot more cooking than me , I know they 've got some really good
7 There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep .
8 His final reflection was that ‘ such a picture can not be defined at all until we find a way of describing whatever it is that makes first-rate entertainment what it is ’ .
9 Tipperary after local opposition , saying the Raybestos case was worse as the Ovens objectors were trying to force changes after the statutory period for planning objections had long passed : ‘ Foreign companies coming to this country and adhering to our planning conditions will begin wondering if they can go ahead at all if they see the assurances of the IDA and the planning authorities are not the final assurances . ’
10 Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled .
11 So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for .
12 Fill in the vowels , taking care to identify which vowels are weak ; put no vowel at all if you think a syllabic consonant is appropriate , but put a syllabic mark beneath the syllabic consonant .
13 It does n't look the same at all if you compare a finished course to the original landscape . ’
14 It is advisable not to press the seams at all unless you have a needle board ( a length of canvas covered with fine , shallow wires into which the pile side of the fabric is pressed ) .
15 They it 's simple , it 's nice , it 's elegant and it 's not an item at all unless you have a further premise that the world itself is simple , nice and elegant and you have no reason to believe that at all , but since that applies across all sides , I think linguistics is in no worse shape .
16 For the man or woman with a first-class academic brain the administrative posts in the Home Civil Service have great attraction , above all because they give the satisfaction of doing work of paramount social and national importance .
17 Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men .
18 She is frightened of some noises — like the vacuum cleaner — but does n't bother at all when I use the lawnmower or hedge-cutter .
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