Example sentences of "of all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to improved fragrance technology , perfumers are now able to offer us subtly differing strengths of the same scent for different moments during the day : eau de parfum ( freshest of all ) eau de toilette , parfum de toilette , esprit de parfum , parfum — or even , for some famous names , parfum extra , ideal for knocking 'em dead at several paces . |
| 2 | By varying your perfume choice with the frequency you change your smalls , you never build up that resistance ( and thereby avoid the risk of all but suffocating colleagues in a crowded lift with too much ‘ Shalimar ’ while you still ca n't smell a thing ) . |
| 3 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 4 | Women , being closer to nature because of their biology , were more likely to be overcome by powerful feelings , and the burden therefore fell upon women to control themselves , for their good and for the good of all around them . |
| 5 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |
| 6 | The park has Sarus Cranes ( the largest of all ) from India , Common Cranes from Europe and Asia , and Grey-necked Crowned Cranes from East Africa . |
| 7 | P. Ransome-Wallis remarked that one platform would have sufficed for the traffic , and indeed it was not long before Trinidad 's railways , together with those of all the smaller West Indian islands , were shut down . |
| 8 | Others formed their tastes on the other side of the 1976 watershed : this means that the music they grew up with ( the most potent music of all ) was Never Mind The Bollocks . |
| 9 | According to Michael , surfing was the fount of all virtue. : |
| 10 | But those to be educated were still divided into the sheep and the goats , the most goatish of all doing no examinations before they left school , the best of the sheep doing examinations in none but theoretical or language-based subjects . |
| 11 | Terry Gillam 's blackly comic futuristic fantasy , set in an Orwellian world of all pervasive bureaucratic repression and lumbering 1940s technology , where Jonathan Pryce 's timid , contented underachiever pursues the girl of his dreams and falls murderously foul of the system . |
| 12 | Many experiments were done to decide who should have responsibility for controlling the sound ; but eventually it all came down to the engineers , assisted by meters and ( most important of all ) a keen musical sense . |
| 13 | Now what perplexes me about this universal condition ( perhaps the most universal of all ) is the scant attention it receives in — the literature ’ . |
| 14 | Best of all why not none ? |
| 15 | Ibn Fayoud was in control of nothing , least of all himself . |
| 16 | There are two principal kinds of horizontal press : the hydraulic press ( the simplest of all ) , usually a Vaselin model , which has two flat metal plates at either end that push together , squashing the grapes in between and issuing the juice from a duct in the inner cylindrical sleeve ; and the pneumatic press , of which the Willmes is the most common . |
| 17 | Most impervious of all has been the news , making only brief reference to items such as the 1967 Sexual Offences Act or the more recent Local Government Act . |
| 18 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 19 | The most famous face of all has slipped in during the seemingly inexorable rise in predicted numbers of Conservative seats . |
| 20 | To enter the book draw , just send your name and address on a postcard , and do n't forget to state whether you would prefer books from only one category or a mix of all ( please give the age of child if applicable ) , to SHE/Books for Giving Offer , BA Marketing , Minster House , 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road , London SW1V 1BA , by November 30 . |
| 21 | Most excitingly of all some lesbians and gays with disabilities are beginning to organize through groups such as Gemma ( lesbians with and without disabilities ) , Gay Men 's Disabled Group and the Brothers and Sisters Gay Deaf Group , to fight back from within the lesbian and gay movements . |
| 22 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 23 | But the supporting cast are simply wheeled on to do their party pieces : Alan Rickman as an evil spin doctor , Giancarlo Esposito as a conspiracy , obsessed reporter , and ( best of all ) Gore Vidal as a dandified liberal senator . |
| 24 | But the most precious gem of all does not come cheap . |
| 25 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 26 | Members work within a closely defined mandate : to seek the release of prisoners of conscience — people imprisoned solely for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , language or religion , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence ; to ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners ; to oppose the death penalty , torture and other cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of all prisoners. ; and to end extrajudicial executions and ‘ disappearances ’ . |
| 27 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 28 | The jacket allows plenty of all round movement and the hem will not ride up once the drawcord is tightened . |
| 29 | It has provided an advice service to staff and students , conducted research and published information , but perhaps most of all has provided through its regional and local groups , and national conferences , an opportunity for teaching staff and others to meet together on a regular basis to share ideas and experience . |
| 30 | The paradox of Pius XII 's reign was the acceptance of chunks of a new model — the encouragement of modern biblical scholarship in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu , of participant liturgical reform in Mediator Dei , of an increasingly multi-faceted lay apostolate — together with slightly ineffectual but still painful attempts to silence Congar and many others ( the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin most of all ) , the signing of highly reactionary concordats with Spain and Portugal , and an even greater stress on Marian devotion ( culminating not only in the definition of the Assumption in 1950 but in the ‘ Marian Year ’ of 1954 ) . |