Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun pl] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've got a ring of anti-aircraft guns all round them . |
| 2 | His other interest , ethnographical collections , grew through his support of Czech travellers all over the world . |
| 3 | I also kept in touch with the Navy by accepting , every October , invitations from a variety of naval establishments all over the country to propose the toast of the Immortal Memory of Lord Nelson at their Trafalgar Night dinners . |
| 4 | Untold damage was done , alas , to the look of older streets all over the country by the removal of iron railings . |
| 5 | I walked in a daze trying to keep warm as strange fantasies plagued my mind : Selkirk chanting in a field of white roses all stained by blood ; my mother crouching on a step as she used to when I would play and run to her — but , when I drew closer , she was an old cripple , eyes open , face frozen blue . |
| 6 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 7 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 8 | Guests came and went , totally unaware of the intricate weaving of human relationships all around them . |
| 9 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 10 | Sometimes in our rare London travels we had a glimpse of a side street , a row of silent houses all combined as it were into one gray palace , a dark doorway , a gorgeous window , a surprising man disappearing … |
| 11 | That is just 50 of the 100 questions put to members of aquatic societies all around the country over the last year . |
| 12 | Perhaps , but at the same time the means to cope with market movements have developed enormously , bettering the lot of corporate treasurers all around the world . |
| 13 | 4 The same piece of string , 36cm long , can be pulled in to a lot of different rectangles all having the same perimeter , but different areas . |
| 14 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 15 | The walls covered with pictures , others on tables , and portfolios of different sizes all round the room , they must have been full shows . |
| 16 | So too does his sometime-sidekick on this journey : a ‘ Soverican ’ jazz drummer-cum-taxidriver named Sasha Zim who is besotted with the unhinged madness of New York and proclaims from the outset that ‘ Broadway is mother of all Broadways all over the world , mother of lights of Picadilly Circus and of Place Pigalle and Teatralny Ploschtchad . |
| 17 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |