Example sentences of "have all " in BNC.

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1 But the political significance of this culture is that where opinion counts and where the catholic — nationalist remnant actually experiences the coercive power of protestant loyalists and the British army in the Northern statelet , there violence has all the more support .
2 It has all happened before , he wrote , and it will all happen again .
3 As the Welsh squad do not meet again until 30 October , time has all but run out .
4 I am just sorry it has all ended in this way .
5 Money may have disappeared down a black hole ( the budget was $40m according to Hurd , though industry sources put it nearer $50m ) , but it has all been spent on spectacle , not marquee names : Ed Harris ( from Jacknife ) and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio star as an oil-rig foreman and the project engineer , both brought in to rescue a striken nuclear submarine .
6 Treated by theology as one of the deadly sins and recognised and discussed without inhibition by philosophers , poets , psychologists and other observers of the human scene until the present century , it has all but disappeared from view in our own time and reference to its existence , let alone study of its function , has been sedulously avoided .
7 That has all been great fun .
8 To make swifter unity on West German terms more attractive to East Germans , Mr Kohl has all but promised that their savings will be converted , over time , from Monopoly-money Ostmarks into rock-ribbed D-marks at the ridiculously unrealistic rate of 1:1 .
9 Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible .
10 In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change .
11 ‘ This has all been carefully thought out and we will be replanting with slow growing species such as hawthorn and hazel , ’ Mr Knipe said .
12 And the good news is that this mind-boggling occasion will not be spoilt by the Welsh team trotting on when it has all finished …
13 ‘ It has all been carefully stage-managed , ’ said one disappointed Norwegian .
14 Overall , there is an abiding impression of emptiness , of a natural pace and rhythm and of a traditional way of life that has all but disappeared from superficially similar island communities elsewhere in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland .
15 Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years .
16 The intellectual challenge to Christianity in Western Europe and America over the last two hundred years has all too often tempted it to retreat into a ghetto ring-fenced by claims about the unassailable insights granted to those with faith .
17 In fact , most of the central section has all but disappeared , the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town .
18 A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism .
19 The real irony is that if Israel continues to systematically close all community service institutions , while the government sector has all but collapsed , then the people will be left with no option but to organise things for themselves … in the end only the popular committees will be left .
20 Since the Second World War it has all been downhill .
21 For hundreds of years it has all been exactly the same .
22 Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath .
23 I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him .
24 A shrewd theologue said that personality has all to do with function .
25 Some have taken the view that the increasing centralisation of policy control by government , and the devolution of responsibility to schools and colleges , accompanied by a range of alternative provision such as grant-maintained schools and city technology colleges , has all but made LEAs redundant .
26 Instead of learning more about how people function in a world whose intellectual demands are growing , the US has all but outlawed the data , encouraged to do so by what it encounters in the national press .
27 In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over .
28 Once the coolant has all evaporated , the telescope warms up and is useless .
29 Airtime suppliers are to charge what they like , but competition should mean that call rates fall , especially as the recession has all but capped the once fast growth .
30 But even if the dowry has all but vanished , to marry a rich husband or wife is still a means of improving one 's financial situation .
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