Example sentences of "all [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 True , all acts of government policy create a presumption that they will remain in force and are an invitation to the citizen to adapt his private behaviour accordingly ; but the tendency of decisions in the social service field to create vested interests is of a quite peculiar order .
2 I do not want to get involved in the technicalities of such arguments but , for good or ill , the anthropomorphic style of sociobiological interpretation , together with its exaggerated insistence that virtually all patterns of animal behaviour ( including those found in man ) can be explained by evolutionary hypotheses , has lately served to reinforce and extend Darwin 's original Epicurean thesis that the difference between man and other animals is simply one of degree , that there is no natural discontinuity .
3 All groups of hall users continue with varying fortunes .
4 The same principle holds good for all pairs of wind instruments in combination unless , of course , the two bottom notes of the chord lie outside the downward compass of the upper pair of instruments .
5 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 .
6 The precautionary withdrawal of all cans of lumpfish caviare , manufactured by MacFish at Fraserburgh , was ordered by the company after a Government health warning .
7 President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas .
8 Diesel engines are the main source of smoke in cities and are responsible for a fifth of all emissions of nitrogen oxides .
9 Not all cases of child cruelty have similar implications to those which Kempe and his associates have discovered .
10 Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period .
11 About 50–60% of all cases of prostate cancer in the European Community present with obvious metastases or are locally too advanced for potentially curative management .
12 British Rail investigates all cases of signal failure .
13 A WHO analysis published on Nov. 11 in Geneva showed heterosexual intercourse to be responsible for three quarters of all cases of HIV infection .
14 Clearly one can , if one wishes , assume that the exploit of Morgoth of which the Eldar never learnt was the traditional seduction of Adam and Eve by the serpent , while the incoming Édain and Easterlings are all sons of Adam flying from Eden and subject to the curse of Babel .
15 The band ( all sons of Gabby Pahinui , the late folk hero and master of Hawaiian slack-key guitar who contributed to Cooder 's ‘ Chicken Skin Music ’ back in 1975 ) have put together a collection of traditional songs interspersed with some surprising covers , including Lennon 's Jealous Guy and Steve Earle 's My Old Friend The Blues .
16 The coronation oath of Edgar is recorded for 973 : he swore first " that God 's Church and all Christian people of my realm shall enjoy true peace ; second , that I forbid to all ranks of men robbery and all wrongful deeds ; third , that I urge and command justice and mercy in all judgements " — pious words , perhaps , but solemn and binding , and made at the bidding of Archbishop Dunstan and laid on the altar at Bath .
17 If one performs a single regression ( rather than a probit ) using all values of p t a similar story emerges :
18 The existence of a steady-state solution depends then on the extent of possible variation in the output-capital ratio , i.e. , whether for all values of s. n , and y there exists a k such that .
19 All operators of DC-10-10 airplanes are currently performing 100 hour functional checks on the cargo door system and will incorporate necessary modifications in accordance with McDonnell Douglas Service Bulletins 52–27 and A52-35 within 300 hours .
20 However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C .
21 Heseltine 's aides were able to exploit this by urging all opponents of Mrs Thatcher to vote for him in order to bring their own preferred candidate into a second ballot .
22 The advantages of the innovations brought about by Edward IV and Henry VII lay in the professional supervision of royal estates , the speedy collection of revenues , the rigorous exploitation of all forms of Crown income , and the availability of liquid cash .
23 In fact , the potential need to revise the 1987 regulations was identified even before they were published , as a result of the Bank Accounts Directive ( 86/635/EEC ) which , in spite of its name , applies to all forms of credit institutions , including building societies .
24 Given the rate of inflation of food prices , all forms of relief expenditure would have become considerably more expensive .
25 All forms of E. purpurea enjoy a rich , deep , well-drained soil in sun and are best propagated by root cuttings .
26 In part ( 1 ) of the top panel all forms of factor prices are listed , their precise values being determined by the supply and demand of the factors in question .
27 Proposals for mining activities are dealt with by the authority responsible for all forms of development control .
28 However , one of the arguments put forward by those who support all forms of field sports is that the landowners over whose land foxes and deer are being hunted and game birds shot , will maintain a more natural environment than if such activities did not take place .
29 all forms of text editing and manipulation
30 ‘ Rubbish ’ has been defined by Peter Dickinson ( 1973 , p.101 ) as ‘ all forms of reading matter which contain to the adult eye no visible value , either aesthetic or educational ’ .
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