Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [noun] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flavouring vegetables are 2 each of large carrots , leeks , onions and tomatoes ; a bouquet of herbs consisting of parsley stalks , a piece of celery , a bay leaf and a crushed clove of garlic all tied together ; 1 tablespoon of salt . |
| 2 | Russia contains 20 different races of people all with deep rooted beliefs , values and rivalries between each race . |
| 3 | There is going to be a serious shortage of food all over the world during the next year . |
| 4 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 5 | The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country . |
| 6 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 7 | Rose followed Sid into the small kitchen at Blue Horizons and was immediately enveloped in a paradise of smells , reminiscent of childhood , the spices of exotic cooking and the warm scents of Provence all rolled into one . |
| 8 | The significance of the birth of Christ is not the sudden appearance of angels all over the place , but the fact that such an important person was born in the most humble surroundings — in a poor and lowly stable . |
| 9 | There are many cheeses that are similar to Brie and Camembert but produced in different shapes or sold at differing stages of ripeness. all are referred to as surface-ripened , containing bacteria on their developing white rinds . |
| 10 | There were little spots of cement all along the top , where the railings had been torn out in the war . |
| 11 | The tears ran down her face , and soon there was a large pool of water all around her on the floor . |
| 12 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 13 | There is still a great deal of Greece all through the Tartarin and Daumier part of this queer country , where the good folks have the accent you know ; there is a Venus of Arles just as there is a Venus of Lesbos and one still feels the youth of it , in spite of all … |
| 14 | The unlawful theft of cars all too often leads to injury and death . |
| 15 | Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law . |
| 16 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 17 | Does my hon. Friend agree that many leaders of local industry are giving their time and experience to ensure the great success of TECs all over the United Kingdom and that it is imperative that we , the Government , ensure that they are properly funded ? |
| 18 | Out of all her workmates , Kerry was possibly the least friendly , which made her current show of concern all the more special . |
| 19 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Such an approach , while making the double taxation of profits all too likely , in theory does away with fake transfer pricing within multinational groups and therefore has some merit ( see page 83 ) . |
| 22 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 23 | Today they are an important source of food all over the world . |
| 24 | concerned is the small amount of paperwork all right . |
| 25 | Just as the field in sunspots suppresses the flow of radiation locally , so the spread-out field inhibits the general upflow of radiation all over the sun . |
| 26 | ‘ Fish is such wonderful stuff , so perishable and so delicate , ’ enthuses Mr Black , waving at the glorious display of shellfish all around us . |
| 27 | A very inefficient bit of work all round . " |
| 28 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 29 | For minor members of foreign missions , of whom ambassadors ' secretaries were the most important , gold chains continued during much of the seventeenth century to be a very common form of gift all over Europe . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |