Example sentences of "all the water " in BNC.

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1 Maybe if I was on Sandøya when winter came , when the sun went in for two or three months , when all the water froze , when ice covered the ground and fishing was a risky business of frozen fingers and ears , on water in which survival was measured in seconds , I would be less romantic about it .
2 The rice should absorb all the water and the chicken will be cooked through .
3 But the city council has said Expo can have all the water it needs , even if this means cutting off supplies to the city itself , a decision which has not thrilled Sevillanos , already resentful of the ephemeral extravaganza planted on their doorsteps .
4 Lord Clinton , chairman , said : ‘ This is a marvellous result which sets a precedent which should be heeded by all the water and detergent companies and is a positive step forward for the future health of all rivers in the South West . ’
5 If you 're extending the plumbing and drainage to incorporate a second bathroom , you may have to notify the water authority in order to comply with all the water regulations .
6 I wished our teenage children had been with us , they would have revelled in all the water sports , in the bay .
7 But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network .
8 Nor did we have sinks and drains , so all the water had to be carried in and carried out again when it was dirty .
9 Once it 's in the blood , alcohol is quickly distributed throughout all the water in the body so it appears in almost every organ and tissue , including blood .
10 Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe .
11 Teacher : Can you pour all the water in your bottle into this jug ?
12 This charity , sponsored by all the water authorities , aims to bore wells in Third World countries to supply them with an uncontaminated source of water .
13 The first team to consume all the water is the winner .
14 It was raining harder then ever by now , but could all the water in my excavation have come from above ?
15 It would be you responsibility to repair the pipe , or pay for all the water wasting away into your garden .
16 Other gaffes include one from an Acapulco hotel which states : ‘ The manager has personally passed all the water served here . ’
17 Never change ALL the water at once , a typical procedure conducted on goldfish bowls and small tanks .
18 ‘ After the place where they have dug the hole , after that all the water flows to the barracks and the administration ? ’
19 If we take Cournot 's time-honoured example of the mineral water duopoly , with the exception that we suppose developing a spring involves a fixed cost F , after which all the water desired can be extracted at a constant marginal cost ( of c , possibly zero ) , then we have a natural monopoly in the sense that average cost is continually declining .
20 Overall , usable responses were received from all the water authorities ( 100 per cent ) , 41 local authorities ( 47 per cent ) and 46 health authorities ( 67 per cent ) .
21 ‘ I mean all the water 's gone .
22 We went out to eat in Mondano and they just dumped all the water in here . ’
23 Er all the water was coming over the doors .
24 If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 .
25 I dismissed the watercolours and pencils , because of humping all the water bottles , brushes , and so on around .
26 I leaned against her wall and gasped for air , and my arms and legs felt like lead weights , like when you climb up out of the baths and all the water 's draining off you .
27 Miniature waterlilies that may be growing in a shallow rock pool or sink should ideally have all the water drained off their crowns and then be protected by a generous layer of old leaves or straw .
28 The surface was dirt , but despite all the water the going was good .
29 Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off .
30 Erm carry all the water from a shaft in the bottom of the field for all the the animals as well in in into the and all the pigs and the calves .
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