Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] for all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They said cautions were acceptable for all age groups for a wide range of unspecified offences .
2 Curves were similar for all metals except iron , which had much higher contamination values even after five collections .
3 With the exception of an occasional haemorrhoid , findings were negative for all types of colorectal pathology , and none of the control patients or their families had histories of either colorectal malignancy or inflammatory bowel disease .
4 Mr Barwise-Munro felt there was still a great deal to learn about bovine obstetrics and he discounted the farmer 's view that bulls were responsible for all problems , saying : ‘ The bull is important but we also have to consider the pelvic area of the female .
5 Those officers were especially selected from erm the firearms officers we had available at that time and they were responsible for all firearms operations within the county .
6 Hospital notes were available for all patients .
7 But in the past there was certainly considerable diversity in secondary schools at least about what subjects were compulsory for all pupils , and how soon they might give them up .
8 There could not , however , be prescriptions that were valid for all cases ; national policy was a ‘ continuous creation ’ , and what was necessary above all was a realistic and undogmatic approach , free of national chauvinism but receptive to legitimate expressions of national self-consciousness .
9 In the seventies life was rosy for all trade unions and everyone within the organization felt secure .
10 The President announced that with the exception of these two Committees , it was customary for all Offices to be voted for en-bloc by a show of hands .
11 Watt gave two-thirds of his patent rights to Boulton and was responsible for all design work .
12 Finally , the ‘ deme judges ’ ( again an originally Pisistratid invention ) dispensed a justice which was uniform for all Attica , but they travelled round the demes on a kind of assize circuit ; they too must have been agents of unification .
13 An average of five evaluations was available for all patients ( range 3 to 10 ) .
14 Overall , patients with two risk factors took longer to heal ( 4.4 weeks ; 95% CI 4.1 , 4.7 ) than did those with only one risk factor ( 3.7 weeks ; 95% CI 3.5 , 3.9 ) ; this was true for all pairs of risk factors with the exception of multiple ulcers plus prior complications and multiple ulcers plus an ulcer greater than 15 mm in diameter ( Table IV ) , which were associated with prolonged healing only in comparison with an absence of risk factors .
15 When he re-emerged on record in 1987 he was ready for all comers and quickly established a reputation as the upcoming DJ .
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