Example sentences of "change [adv prt] [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and it changed out of all recognition .
2 ‘ The landscape would change out of all recognition and as farmers leave , the social lifeblood of the area would also drain away , leaving the afforested valleys even more sparsely populated . ’
3 From the Chief Constable … to the bobby on the beat … the men and women responsible for policing Swindon fear their jobs are about to change out of all recognition .
4 This is another area which is changing out of all recognition since closure of the colliery and removal of sidings etc .
5 Since the 1970s , working practices have changed out of all recognition .
6 The world has changed out of all recognition since then . ’
7 Our solicitors had prepared the necessary ‘ instruments ’ , and all Karen and I had to do was ‘ execute ’ them , but when we emerged into the mild sunshine of Beaumont Street twenty minutes later , my life had been changed out of all recognition .
8 The road between Scourie and Kylesku has been changed out of all recognition .
9 Circumscribed by the injunction — voiced or not , that the machines built around it should not pose a threat to IBM Corp 's proprietary product lines , the designers of the Power RISC created a chip that was heavily slewed towards scientific and technical applications — but the IBM world has changed out of all recognition since then and the RS/6000 is at least as widely used in commercial applications as in technical , while IBM is finding it increasingly hard to sell proprietary systems .
10 One of the many things which has changed out of all recognition during my lifetime is our ability to teach languages to mature students .
11 He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there .
12 Other towns were changed out of all recognition because of their location at centres of major railway lines .
13 When the provisions of the NHS and Community Care Act are fully implemented in 1991 local authority social services departments will be changed out of all recognition .
14 As Tone Vine-Lott , managing director of Barclays Stockbrokers and new chairman of the Scottish Stock Exchange ( and , as an IT man , nothing like the stockbroker stereotype ) , points out in Money Talks , the stockbroking game will still have changed out of all recognition in ten years ' time .
15 To put the point graphically , while Marx and his nineteenth-century comrades would have no great difficulty in recognizing the economic and the political spheres today , despite the major changes that have undoubtedly taken place in the last hundred years , in the cultural-ideological sphere the opportunities for hegemonic control on a global scale have changed out of all recognition .
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