Example sentences of "of [noun] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | That £5 million will buy an awful lot of sightscreens , heavy rollers and bags of loam all designed to improve the country . |
| 2 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 3 | Since the end of March all five Asian economies in the chart have become more competitive , albeit not by much . |
| 4 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 5 | It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place . |
| 6 | Here and there one may find a row of houses all having the same supply , but very often two adjacent houses are supplied differently . |
| 7 | Mr Stannard was a partner in one of the leading county estate agencies ; his name graced the pages of the local paper each week , spread like a banner above photographs of houses all priced , it seemed to Edward , at a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 8 | And the worst thing you can do is to screw it all up by putting a lot of technique all over it ! ' |
| 9 | Acting as Port Agent for P&O Cruises for the first time , Ellerman & Bucknall were responsible for a range of activities all aimed at ensuring a trouble free visit for Canberra in both Durban and Cape Town . |
| 10 | ‘ During the spring Cry hopes to gather many thousands of signatures all over real Yorkshire in order to convince the Local Government Commission that Yorkshire people wish to see their county made whole again , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Now this situation is multiplied thousands of times all over Scotland ! |
| 12 | You must have had hundreds of mistresses all over the world — ’ |
| 13 | The sounds of animated conversation and laughter , the pop of wine corks and the chink of cutlery all combined to lift her spirits . |
| 14 | You keep meeting the same people in a sector of industry all over the world . ’ |
| 15 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 16 | Piles of books all over the floor : Agatha Christie , Dick Francis , P. D. James . |
| 17 | Perhaps you have shelves full of books all over the house . |
| 18 | After I had left her she had spilt her cup of tea all over the bedclothes , which had soon become not only wet but cold and wet . |
| 19 | This set of words is called the word-initial cohort , since it is a set of words all having the same initial sound . |
| 20 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 21 | Tufnell bowls , quickly , flatter , and that whistles through outside the off stump , ooh , groans and shouts of disappointment all around the wicket there , echoed by Victor Marks , yeah , yeah in the box . |
| 22 | If you ask me , it looks like a load of picture of heads all over the bloody place ! |
| 23 | It ploughed into the ground scattering debris and bits of aluminium all over the place . |
| 24 | The unlawful theft of cars all too often leads to injury and death . |
| 25 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 26 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 27 | Together we watched the beautiful funeral procession of the Dead Christ on Good Friday , and its station in Kolonáki Square ; and on the following night we waited by the reservoir till midnight to watch Lycabettus coming out in pinpricks of light all over , as the Easter candles were lit . |
| 28 | A beautiful silver starfish , with points of light all over its body , sapphire and rose-pink and silver . |
| 29 | It was crowded and swarming with school parties , hundreds of schools all gathered together , some in uniform , some not in uniform , some accompanied , some unaccompanied . |
| 30 | However it is not only the famous who give up their time as there are hundreds of missionaries all around the world trying to help people of the same and different religions through worship to God . |