Example sentences of "[verb] of all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly it is not to be supposed of all situations : for a start , we do not have a single conception of truth but rather at least two conceptions , those of analytic and synthetic truth . |
| 2 | At the top of the list is boating of all kinds . |
| 3 | He stared at it a while , feeling hollow , emptied of all feeling , then looked away sharply , bitter with himself . |
| 4 | Hollow cubes drained of all life , movement , noise . |
| 5 | She was drained of all colour and animation , but alive . |
| 6 | But like bachelorhood too , with its arid cranking of the engine of thought , its empty impotence , its time drained of all meaning . |
| 7 | It was grey and blank , drained of all personality . |
| 8 | Now she was suddenly drained of all energy , as though spent by the effort . |
| 9 | She could think of all manner of jobs that he would be capable of doing … hewing rocks , digging for Siberian salt … |
| 10 | A survey was undertaken of all referrals for compulsory admission received by a city mental health centre over a one year period . |
| 11 | This is a reasonable question often asked of all Radio 1 producers . |
| 12 | I could see them quite clearly , the blue formed of all sorts of colours , like sapphires picked out in the sun 's last rays . |
| 13 | In any case there was no time left to make his infusion before the assay : he left his blackthorn blossoms , cleansed of all thorns and husks , waiting in a clean vessel for his return , and covered from any floating particles of dust by a linen cloth . |
| 14 | His [ profession ] is compounded of all Natures , all humours , all professions . |
| 15 | But to the bulk of the party , Law s presence in government was a guarantee of the party 's independence ; with Law in charge the party would extract from coalition whatever there was to be gained , but at no risk , and when stripped of all complications this was more or less what Bonar Law intended all along . |
| 16 | They were discovered in the woods completely stripped of all clothing and possessions . ’ |
| 17 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 18 | Chancellor Norman Lamont has been stripped of all credibility here and abroad . |
| 19 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 20 | It was stripped of all decoration : no furniture , no rushes , no hangings on the wall . |
| 21 | Once a self- sufficient farmer , Ahmed Mahlim , 53 , has been stripped of all dignity . |
| 22 | Impervious to any probing , a rod never needed or offered the possibility of any overhaul , so it was perhaps the least adorned of all weapons . |
| 23 | In the half-fictional The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans , and in the pruned record of The Childhood , Thomas has left detailed accounts of his extending interest in ‘ Butterflies , Moths and Pigeons ’ , in fishing , in birdnesting of all kinds , with the skills and making of implements that accompanied these activities . |
| 24 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , their eyes gutted of all expression . |
| 25 | Yet in one the father did not know what was going on , and was robbed of all dignity . |
| 26 | ‘ ( The European Parliament ) … considers that , in the absence of palliative care correctly provided at both psychological and medical level , each time a fully conscious patient insistently and repeatedly requests an end to an existence which has for him been robbed of all dignity , and each time a team of doctors created for that purpose , established the impossibility of providing further specific care , the request should be satisfied without thereby involving any breach of respect for human life . ’ |
| 27 | A cohort may consist of all persons born in the same year ( a birth cohort or generation ) ; but all women married in a particular year or a random sample of all cancer sufferers diagnosed in a certain month are equally valid examples of cohorts . |
| 28 | Therefore it follows that the optimum portfolio ( which is called the ‘ market ’ portfolio ) will consist of all investment assets in the market and that each asset will be held in proportion to the ratio of its own market value to the total market value : where W i is the weight of asset i in the market portfolio . |
| 29 | Diet should consist of all types of worms , even the largest taking tubifex and bloodworm in vast quantities , or any of the other frozen meat-based foods are relished . |
| 30 | Will the Minister ensure that his Department keeps me advised of all developments relating to that sad event ? |