Example sentences of "of all [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 2 | All the policies have been the subject of consultation , but in the case of policy H two , we 've experienced almost five years of continued discussion and debate first of all through the Greater York study and then through this alteration . |
| 3 | As the sky slowly brightened and they waited , Fleury thought of how he and Harry had waited for the first attack of all at the beginning of June . |
| 4 | For example , Mrs Moreen 's remark " And all overclouded by this , you know- all at the mercy of a weakness " ( 9 ) has the anaphoric repetition of all at the beginning of successive clauses , and has two banal colloquial metaphors in the expressions " overclouded " and " at the mercy of " . |
| 5 | We looked first of all at the relationship of grammar to discourse and the extent to which formal cohesive ties operate across sentence boundaries . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ It 's probably the most worrying threat of all at the minute and we have to find it . |
| 7 | A particular research project that I and two colleagues , Keith Baker and Erin Sloman , have a grant from the Science Research Council for is to look first of all at the problems of getting such as system with , well at the moment three but possibly up to twelve computers , working on a given existing artificial intelligence problem to see how to take this big program — it 's called Popeye — it 's a research project to study various areas of visual perception , as you say — to see how to break this down and have it running simultaneously on a number of much smaller computers , rather than on the single big computer that it 's running on at the moment . |
| 8 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 9 | A network of diplomatic relations with the neighbouring capitalist world came gradually into existence , first of all with the smaller border states such as Finland and Estonia , then , in the 1920s , with Germany , France , Britain and Japan , and finally , in the early 1930s , with the United States , Belgium , Spain and the newly established states of Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | The general council of the Trades Union Congress , led by Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin , warned MacDonald that there must be no tampering with the social services , least of all with the dole . |
| 11 | But er I 'll deal first of all with the Children Act . |
| 12 | if I can er start first of all with the pleadings bundle and with the statement of claim which erm er sets out all the er upon which the plaintiffs and your Lordship will see from paragraph one that this claims relate to the purchase by the plaintiff of a lease of a restaurant and wine bar business at and er it is alleged that the defendants were retained by the plaintiffs to advise them in relation to that transaction in early September of nineteen eighty five and that the contract between them er contained the usual implied required for the defendant to exercise or deal with the proper and care in relation to their conduct of the transaction and er to the advice given to the plaintiffs throughout . |
| 13 | One has to remember that well into the nineteenth century British identity was predicated first of all of the English . |
| 14 | On the wall of our dining room is one of my favourite pictures — a composite photograph of all of the ‘ Roadies ’ team for Mrs Thatcher 's 1987 election tour . |
| 15 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 16 | This consists of all of the significant relationships in which God places us . |
| 17 | And both , as a result of all of the above , provided unparalleled opportunities for the British to convince themselves and show the world — it was remarkable how often Indirect Rulers reported on the esteem in which their system was held by other nations — that they naturally did certain things very , very well . |
| 18 | ‘ The Lead Organization ’ shall mean Oxford University Press which , acting on behalf of all of the Parties , shall be responsible for all communications with IEATP , shall receive any grant offer from the Secretary of State and shall act as Project Manager for the carrying out of the Project . |
| 19 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
| 20 | Of course , in reality there is no united lesbian and gay community with a common set of needs and yet Switchboard attempts a near-unique balancing act of serving some of the needs of all of the people as much of the time as possible . |
| 21 | A study of cremation urns , grouped on a stylistic basis as being the products of the ‘ Sancton-Baston ’ pottery or workshop , incorporating the analysis of fabrics and measurement of all of the stamp impressions , produced a complex pattern ( Figure 2.19 ) ( Arnold 1983 ) . |
| 22 | ( For a detailed account of the post-redundancy experiences of all of the older workers in the study see Walker et al. |
| 23 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 24 | The activity of a Z-neuron is therefore , the result of summing the effects of all of the X-neurons on that cell . |
| 25 | They doubted whether valid measures of all of the areas of development could be devised ; they maintained that the tests used would have a distorting and trivializing effect on pupils ' learning ( 'this year 's test becomes next year 's curriculum' ) : they pointed to the possibility , notwithstanding the assurances that light sampling techniques would be deployed , that superficial comparisons would be made on the basis of inadequate evidence between areas and between schools ; and they detected in the paraphernalia of mass testing associated with the APU the most sinister intrusion of central government into the work of the schools and the spectre of state-controlled curricula . |
| 26 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 27 | It is equally important that their different roles and functions are properly co-ordinated with each other , so that the participants in the process are mindful of all of the child 's needs and rights , that they keep each other well informed , ensure that nothing gets ‘ left out ’ and yet avoid duplication . |
| 28 | Other features include a built-in C interpreter , enabling changes in the user interface to be executed simultaneously with the application , WYSIWYG editor , and full use of all of the OSF/Motif toolkit . |
| 29 | Since then we have witnessed the development first of all of the Keynesian view of the importance of money , followed by the monetarist view which is at odds with the former and is closely associated with the original quantity theory . |
| 30 | A reminder first of all of the way in which the STV would work in parliamentary constituencies . |