Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life . |
| 2 | In my experience , babies are remarkably placid through all sorts of family rows , so long as they are warm and well fed ; while they will infallibly disrupt the most harmonious scene if they have a pain . ’ |
| 3 | They also found that the frequency and degree of mispricing declined as delivery approached and that , if a trading lag of ten minutes was incorporated , arbitrage remained profitable for all classes of arbitrageur . |
| 4 | Straight talking finally ensures the price is right for all sides in big fuel debate . |
| 5 | No political decision … can be right for all time . |
| 6 | The new legislation made it possible for all South Africans to purchase freehold tenure to the 87 per cent of South Africa 's land hitherto reserved for the white minority , although it placed no obligation on white owners to sell , and commentators pointed out that few blacks had the means to buy . |
| 7 | Given time , it is theoretically possible for all students to gain 100 per cent marks . |
| 8 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 9 | The ‘ real ’ is a sub-set of the possible for all language users . |
| 10 | Different types of pupil will gravitate towards different sub-topics , but all will have the common link of starting from the same stimulus ; it will be possible for all children to contribute to whatever may be the concluding feature , such as an exhibition , poster or class booklet . |
| 11 | make it possible for all pupils to have some testimony to their achievement ; |
| 12 | I hope it will be possible for all questionnaires to be returned by 30th September 1985 at the latest , but if in practice this is likely to cause problems , I shall of course be happy to receive them a little later . |
| 13 | The huge quantity of works which are the responsibility of the Soprintendenza means that it is not possible for all restoration campaigns to be carried out by in-house staff . |
| 14 | Success rates , as can be seen from the summary table , were generally low for all questions on metric units except some of those on length and temperature . |
| 15 | On the other hand , a Club with a low rating for children 's facilities , for example , does not necessarily mean it is unsuitable for all families , simply that it is likely to have fewer facilities for children . |
| 16 | It is usual for all salami to be sliced very finely . |
| 17 | It may be impractical for all clubs to ‘ invest ’ in another replay in this manner earlier in the competition . |
| 18 | ‘ There was something subduing in the influence of that silent and solemn and awful presence ( the Jungfrau ) … one had the sense of being under the brooding contemplation of spirit , not an inert mass of rocks and ice — a spirit which had looked down , through the slow drift of ages , upon a million vanished races of men , and judged them ; and would judge a million more — and still be there , watching , unchanged and unchangeable after all life should be gone and the earth had become a vacant desolation . ’ |
| 19 | Educational and entertaining for all ages ! ’ |
| 20 | In the seventies life was rosy for all trade unions and everyone within the organization felt secure . |
| 21 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 22 | If the ego can become an object for libidinal attachments in this way , the simple dichotomy between the ego and the sexual instincts is not adequate for all cases . |
| 23 | Yesterday we had tea with a Rhodesia Front Senator who despises the Africans as ‘ savages ’ and blames the British for all Rhodesia 's ills . |
| 24 | More significantly in 1993 the Committee recommended that it would be sensible for all drinks in the UK to be taxed equally , according to their alcohol content . |
| 25 | On May 22 Gorbachev held a meeting with Gorbunovs and Estonia 's President Arnold Rüütel , later described by Rüütel as " difficult and unpleasant for all sides " , at which Gorbachev repeated the demand that they cancel their independence declarations before any negotiations on the republics ' status could begin . |
| 26 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |
| 27 | But see , what it comes down to , and it 's universal for all relationships , is communication . |
| 28 | They said cautions were acceptable for all age groups for a wide range of unspecified offences . |
| 29 | Wells ( 1982 : 328 ) regards /f/ and / / as underlyingly different for all London speakers , since " if [ ] and [ f ] were stylistic alternatives realising the same underlying phoneme /f/ in all cases , we should have frequent hypercorrections such as * [ a v ] or [ a ] five " but these are virtually unknown . |
| 30 | Polypterus are one of the most primitive of all fish . |