Example sentences of "all that [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 2 | ( c ) The ruined huts are all that remain of the old crofting settlement of Borreraig , an extreme example of the eviction of crofting communities in the 19th century . |
| 3 | Spinneys and woods are all that remain of once thick forest cover . |
| 4 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 5 | By 1837 all that survived of the house were the garden and the avenue . |
| 6 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 7 | It was , in truth , all that remained of what had been the North Pier , blown away by a great storm in the 1920s . |
| 8 | were all that remained of the boat at Sutton Hoo . |
| 9 | All that remained of the laughter of that morning was the cardboard box filled with dead peonies and shoved against the wall in the corner by the sink . |
| 10 | Together with a couple of swing boats , this was all that remained of the travelling showman 's fair that used to appear at the feast . |
| 11 | A few pale streaks of mauve were all that remained of the sunset ; inside , the room was cosy with shaded lamps , a thick brown carpet and rich mahogany furniture . |
| 12 | All that remained of him was his cap on Gottwald 's head . |
| 13 | All that remained of Brigstock Villa , shortly after work started last week , was a pile of rubble ’ . |
| 14 | Outside the circle a few mounds and stones were all that remained of the huddle of huts that had once crowded under the broch 's protection . |
| 15 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |
| 16 | To the east was a thin strip of coast , all that remained of the sweeping plains of Tiranoc . |
| 17 | The thirty-nine works Brooklyn acquired nineteen paintings , nine works on paper and three sculptures ; the Met gained seven oils and one work on paper are all that remained of the hundreds of works the Lowenthals purchased between 1943 and 1958 . |
| 18 | Across the gill a rusting compressed air chamber and a few ruined walls were all that remained of the Sir Francis Level , one of the last and most mechanised mines driven in the dale . |
| 19 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 20 | A few miles away , in three directions , lay the crescent islands of Verlaten , Lang Eiland and Rakata , which were all that remained of the original mother volcano 's metamorphosis . |
| 21 | All that remained of him were the words of his confused hopes , swimming on the pages . |
| 22 | It was all that remained of a new bone-china tea set she had bought only last week . |
| 23 | All that remained of the abbey was a very large and rather ugly abbey church and the old abbey gateway building , which was now part of St. Albans school , where I later went . |
| 24 | Its bow-wave made a dark miraging ripple on the creamy blue surface of the sea , and that was all that remained of civilization when the boats had disappeared behind the western headland . |
| 25 | In the centre of the carbonaceous ball I could discern a small whitish marble which seemed to be all that remained of the original vegetable . |
| 26 | They were all that remained of the men who had worked here on the Project . |
| 27 | We soon came upon a fascinating group of ancient dwellings , all that remained of the old village where the last inhabitants of Rona lived in primitive conditions and awful isolation until their final evacuation in 1844 . |
| 28 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 29 | Staring blankly at the rubble , all that remained of the cottage , she tried to remember the exact words Leo had used when he 'd given her the cheque . |
| 30 | All that remained of this important bastion were three long sections of the massive walls , now only twenty-five feet high . |