Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smaller ports such as Charlestown had all but disappeared but ports such as Methil 3m tons , Leith 2m tons , Burntisland 1.5m tons , Grangemouth 1.8m tons and Granton 0.8m tons had steadily increased . |
| 2 | But by no means do all ordinary children do well , nor all deprived children poorly . |
| 3 | A large dispenser of detergent , an old flex microphone as big as a taper , a polythene bag of tubular bandages , a sealant gun and a box of raisins fell all over his feet . |
| 4 | His room 's a dustbin with lists of objects pinned all over the walls — no , I do n't know what it means . |
| 5 | With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments . |
| 6 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 7 | The two levels of arcades continue all round the church and the gallery , at first floor level , is of vast width and dimensions . |
| 8 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 9 | And there was plenty of crap strewn all over the pavement , so he had to be more careful . |
| 10 | Then lay buckram on top , with bump sandwiched in between and with a 2.5 cm ( 1in ) border of fabric showing all round . |
| 11 | The Penan of Sarawak , the Batak of the Philippines and the Kayapo of Amazonia have all resisted moves to take their lands , so that the they can hold onto their traditional and successful way of life . |
| 12 | The thumping , street-tough beats of label owners and producers , PJ and Smiley , may never entirely disappear , but the sparse nod towards hardcore works all the better against Nicolette 's sugar-sweet , jazzy vocals . |
| 13 | When we reached our hotel and unlocked a suitcase we had kept , we thought , rigidly fastened back in Devon , we were mortified to find mountains of confetti cascading all over the floor . |
| 14 | Hundreds of trials followed all over the land in the wake of Chelmsford . |
| 15 | These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors . |
| 16 | Bloody Hitler and his crew of cut-throats tramping all over Europe . |
| 17 | Whole sera , IgG fractions and Fab fractions of IgG have all been used ( 25 ) . |
| 18 | Boundary changes , opposition to routes and a lack of cash have all held up progress , but the project is set to start in autumn . |
| 19 | His position in England had to be secured , and early difficulties in Denmark , Thorkell , Olaf of Norway and Anund Jacob of Sweden had all to be overcome ; thus , not until 1028 did Cnut 's position in Scandinavia rival Swegen 's in 1013 . |
| 20 | The previous examples of the use of bioceramics have all included some dependence on mechanical strength and uses have focused on replacing diseased or damaged tissues . |
| 21 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 22 | From above him the sounds of movement had all but ceased ; only the creak of a solitary floorboard broke the silence now . |
| 23 | The growth of German industry , the flight from the land , the Ostflucht and the ending of serfdom had all broken the bonds of the Prussian feudal system ; had caused a massive upheaval in terms of social and geographical mobility ; had caused a radical change and development in German class- and national consciousness , and had created problems of identity deep within the German consciousness , precisely because they took place much later than in the west European nations . |
| 24 | She writes : ‘ Ancient tales of terror speak all too frighteningly of the present . ’ |
| 25 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 26 | Since the Prime Minister acknowledges convergence to be a matter of considerable importance in the development of the European Community , why is it , now that the Engineering Employers Federation , the Confederation of British Industry and his noble Friends in the House of Lords have all made cause for new investment incentives for British industry , that he and the remainder of the Government refuse to take such initiatives in order to support this very best way of securing recovery ? |
| 27 | There are quite a lot of other bits and bobs floating about , asteroids , meteors , little bits of chunks flying all over the place . |
| 28 | Compliments about bureaucracy , impersonality , and inefficiency , demands for cultural autonomy and for new types of participation have all sustained a very widespread attack upon existing structures everywhere , in particular upon centralization and hierarchical control . |
| 29 | Now as the city of Manchester goes all out to win the race to host the Olympic games … our own town of Banbury has beaten them to a gold medal … the local boatbuilding firm of Laser will be racing at the next Olympics and to celebrate they 're having a water sports week |
| 30 | As a child I made these , covering the kitchen in ingredients and allowing balls of mixture to roll all over the place , only to be found six months later behind the toaster . |