Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 2 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 3 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 4 | The results of the survey are reported firstly for all Oxfordshire teachers combined , then , where the differences are statistically significant , for different subgroups of teachers as thus defined . |
| 5 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 6 | Newton 's law of gravitation has no explicit time dependence , implying that gravitational effects are transmitted instantaneously to all parts of the Universe ; however , it is a basic postulate of SR that signals travel no faster than the speed of light . |
| 7 | He warned the Conservatives and Labour that ‘ from the ancient bastion of liberalism , the flames are fanning out in all directions , consuming your shabby campaigns , your out-of-date policies , your visions of the future ’ . |
| 8 | You 'll have to excuse it being a bit cold cos we 're walking around with all windows |
| 9 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 10 | Energy can never be destroyed and our energy imprints are preserved technically for all eternity , along with the imprints of other people who have been in close proximity . |
| 11 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 12 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 13 | There is no consistent air movement , and the seeds are drifting outwards in all directions from the tree . |
| 14 | The economic seesaw has hit the ground with a bone-juddering thud yet again — jobs are flying off in all directions as redundancies explode , industries contract and small businesses collapse . |
| 15 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 16 | The National Curriculum Council has jointly produced a poster and publications entitled Secondments Into Industry which have been distributed widely into all staff rooms in the country . |
| 17 | Before the Great War , however , Baden-Powell 's public attitude towards the military significance of the Boy Scouts had been hedged about with all sorts of reservations , and he had always actively disfavoured drill which he thought produced merely mechanical obedience . |
| 18 | One of the reasons for the increased moisture content is that churches such as St Servatius have been sealed tight with all cracks and openings filled in . |
| 19 | The funds are distributed fairly to all missions twice a year . |
| 20 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 21 | However , it might be that , at first , such tests should be set only in those subjects which constitute the ‘ core curriculum ’ to be instituted nationally for all schools . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , these things can be exaggerated out of all proportion . |
| 23 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 24 | Freeze/thaw ( minus 30°C/R.T. ) tests should be carried out on all solutions , emulsions , creams and all other liquid or semi-solid products . |
| 25 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 26 | Unless agreed with CFSU , a pre-issuance review should be carried out of all valuation reports . |
| 27 | However , the report recommended more research into the subject should be carried out before all links were ruled out . |
| 28 | C ) Outgoing mail to be picked up from all Divisions and GWM/MAR/CMG out–trays before 10.00am and at 11.00 am , 1.00 pm , 3.45 pm ( 2.45 pm — Friday ) . |
| 29 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
| 30 | The EC Commission opposed the agreement reached by the Ministers and demanded the ban be applied equally in all member states . |