Example sentences of "[noun pl] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political reasons all too often prevail in questions of this kind , and Japan and Iceland are likely to imitate Norway . |
| 2 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 3 | ( 3 ) The odd strophes have far more nouns and adjectives than the even ones ( 17 nouns as opposed to 6 , 10 adjectives as opposed to 1 ) ; the nouns in the odd strophes are all abstract , those in the even strophes all ( more or less ) concrete . |
| 4 | ‘ I have promised to take big fights all over the country and they come no bigger than a bout with a world title at stake , ’ Hearn said . |
| 5 | For thirty shillings all found , accommodation was to be provided at Ambleside and Keswick , parties would climb Helvellyn and the Langdale Pikes , and visit ‘ the haunts of Wordsworth , Ruskin and the Lake Poets ’ . |
| 6 | There were dead birds all over the streets . |
| 7 | On this day in early June , the foliage was so lush , and the birds at this crucial young-rearing stage so wary that , although we could hear birds all around us , not a glimpse of a feather would we see — unless we followed the Warden 's advice , and skulked . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 9 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd go to all these really swinging parties with all these naked birds all over the place , all covered in drugs , and then this geezer in an acrylic suit would walk in. ‘ 'E would n't talk to anyone . |
| 11 | These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn . |
| 12 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 13 | He would be able to visit libraries , museums and institutions all over Britain and make contact with other numerologists . |
| 14 | He joined a syndicate which invested in the insurance market … underwriting policies all over the world , from family cars to ships ' cargoes . |
| 15 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 16 | So she did — her brother-in-law , a schoolteacher with a young growing family , a huge mortgage and debts all over the place . |
| 17 | It bone breaths all over me . |
| 18 | We were on our own , it was warm , there were beautiful woods all around . |
| 19 | A large travelling version of the exhibition was later prepared by SAVE , and shown in major museums and galleries all round the country over a period of three years . |
| 20 | and he could n't a job and then , I me I mean , he tried for apprenticeships all over the place and other jobs and he just could n't get one ! |
| 21 | Apart from a broken rib , massive bruises all over my body , and slight concussion , I was in one piece . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm black and blue from head to toe , ’ said Crawford then , ‘ I 've got eight pulled ligaments in my leg and bruises all over and , when I limp out of the theatre at night , these bloody bastards are walking up and down with signs saying ‘ English actors will be working next year — will you ? ’ . |
| 23 | you had to belt the players so hard that you ended up with small bruises all over your hand from where their heads indented . |
| 24 | MONEY raised through the Church of Ireland 's Bishops ' Appeal will go towards relief projects all over the world . |
| 25 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 26 | Raleigh International 's current expedition in Namibia has young volunteers , aged between and 25 , working on eight projects all round the country . |
| 27 | I , like so many others , turned up at ‘ Little Dublin ’ last week expecting to see a good game between the Crues and the Super Whites , but there were groans all round when ‘ Mister Carryduff ’ ran on to officiate . |
| 28 | They will be affected for the rest of their lives by the kind of diet which is condemned by nutritionists all over the world as likely to lead to a whole variety of illnesses in later life . |
| 29 | There were teeth all around him , snapping and gnawing . |
| 30 | It was an enormous red folly with balconies all around the back and to the gardens at the sides , and had been divided into apartments . |