Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |
| 2 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 3 | Now what perplexes me about this universal condition ( perhaps the most universal of all ) is the scant attention it receives in — the literature ’ . |
| 4 | If you do not keep all the things written in the book of the law , you remain under its curse as a lawbreaker As James put it in his Epistle , ‘ whoever shall keep the whole law , and yet offend in one point , is guilty of all ’ ( 2 : 10 ) . |
| 5 | Here the sequence begins with an instruction to a typical Californian housewife ( typical in all but name , that is ) , Oedipa Maas , to execute the will of a dead tycoon . |
| 6 | The labour movement , supported by Charles Booth , had long advocated universal pensions payable to all over sixty-five . |
| 7 | 10.1 The Premises shall be demised subject to all ( if any ) Restrictions affecting the Premises ( whether in existence at the date of this agreement or arising at any later date ) |
| 8 | He made a stately , somewhat forbidding exit , his displeasure plainly visible to all around , his mien daring unkind souls to snigger . |
| 9 | The poll-tax was payable by all over the age of fourteen , apart from genuine beggars , including the mendicant friars , who were exempted from it , and from the inhabitants of Durham and Cheshire . |
| 10 | If ‘ these black children have been made white in all but skin colour … have no contact with the black community and their ‘ coping ’ mechanisms are based on denying their racial background' ( p. 137 ) , we must surely question Gill and Jackson 's conclusion , that : |
| 11 | The most recent findings have highlighted some of the fears of the critics of transracial adoption ; ‘ These black children have been made white in all but skin colour ’ ( Gill and Jackson , 1983 , p. 137 ) . |
| 12 | Thus children should be placed transracially at a very young age , so becoming ‘ white in all but skin colour ’ . |
| 13 | The important compatibility advance will allow software to run unchanged on all Mips products regardless of supplier . |
| 14 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 15 | ‘ How was Graham Mills involved with all this. ? ’ |
| 16 | Like Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) , she emphasizes the need for top executives to establish a few clear signals in order to create a felt need for change , and to use ‘ prime movers ’ in the organization both to ‘ talk up ’ the new strategy and to ensure that the signals or symbols developed to establish the new direction are present in all important interactions — i.e. reflected in reports , agenda for meetings , key events , and so on . |
| 17 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 18 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 19 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 20 | Run by the redoubtable Cheryl , the wonderful Aultnamain ( along with the Cluanie Inn , the only pub I know with its name on even the most basic Highland road map ) is a Sunday mecca for musos and the merely thirsty from all around . |
| 21 | Admission was to be free but tickets were required for each day and demand was enormous from all over Britain and Ireland , from other European countries , and even from North America . |
| 22 | Europe over the next few years must be able on all important matters of foreign policy to speak with one voice and , above all , also to act in unison . |
| 23 | A day earlier the Falklands Islands Legislative Council had passed a long-awaited bill allowing licensed surveys of the area , prompting Argentina 's President Carlos Menem to approve a bill in Congress rejecting British sovereignty and setting out Argentina 's right to all mineral deposits within 200 nautical miles of the islands . |
| 24 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 25 | The fitting of additional security locks top and bottom is essential for all round protection . |
| 26 | Little ninth-century architecture remains above ground in any of these sites , though a rare surviving ninth- century crypt , as at St-Denis , or still rarer frescoes , as at St-Germain , Auxerre , or ( perhaps most impressive of all ) the sombre magnificence and elaborately-structured space of Charlemagne 's church at Aachen , give the modern visitor a unique insight into the religious experience of Charles and his contemporaries . |
| 27 | Supplies are now available from all over the world , thereby extending their seasons and meaning that many flowers are on sale almost all year round . |
| 28 | Flower shops are at last taking up the challenge and offering a wider choice from the wealth of materials available from all over the world . |
| 29 | Dozens of disabled from all over Gloucestershire turned up to give it a try . |
| 30 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |