Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [vb base] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ghosts , fairies , dragons , giants , the devil and visitors from space have all been brought in at one time or another . |
| 2 | She writes : ‘ Ancient tales of terror speak all too frighteningly of the present . ’ |
| 3 | Paul Scott 's Raj Quartet , a fictional foursome collected in 1976 and with the pendant of a fifth novel , Staying On ( 1977 ) , is a vast canvas devoted to the transfer of power in India and its sequel : too close in time to be seen , altogether clearly , as historical fiction , too distant in place to be a shared world ; though like E. M. Forster before him , Scott chose an alien sun to define the outlines and shadows of the English abroad , where their habits of mind look all the sharper , odder and more endearing against the background of an exotic land . |
| 4 | Compliments about bureaucracy , impersonality , and inefficiency , demands for cultural autonomy and for new types of participation have all sustained a very widespread attack upon existing structures everywhere , in particular upon centralization and hierarchical control . |
| 5 | These types of record have all been used at one time or another by the authors . |