Example sentences of "all [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if your car has depreciated in value since you bought it … the loss could be yours and , unless you have a no claims protection policy , you may find that you could lose all or a part of your no claims bonus — check with your insurance company . |
| 2 | List Relationships can list full or partial tight relationships for all or a part of the database . |
| 3 | A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in loan notes of the bidder . |
| 4 | A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in shares of the bidder . |
| 5 | Mountain rescue and medical treatment arrangements vary from country to country and walkers may be liable to pay all or a portion of costs . |
| 6 | It simultaneously arranges for its merchant bank to offer to buy from accepting shareholders who wish to take cash all or a proportion of those shares immediately . |
| 7 | A cash underwritten alternative occurs where the bidder offers its own shares to the shareholders of the target but at the same time arranges for its merchant bank to offer to buy from accepting shareholders , who wish to take cash , all or a proportion of those shares immediately . |
| 8 | If all or a variety of these motives are present , some redistribution of income or in-kind government provision is expected within limits , although its pattern is likely to be complex . |
| 9 | ‘ Without ’ could mean either no headgear at all or a headgear which is not ‘ protective headgear ’ as defined : ‘ protective headgear ’ means headgear which |
| 10 | Yet a recent survey showed that a quarter of the ‘ patients ’ do not need to be in a mental institution at all and a half of them could live in the outside world given proper support . |
| 11 | An owl-hoot startled them all and a soldier cursed as the bird sailed low over their heads , plunging in the grass to seize some little creature which squirmed in its death agonies . |
| 12 | Children starving , children who who are orphans , children on the move , refugees erm people that have nothing , nothing at all and a lot of the money is spent in this country erm particularly in cities , very poor areas of the cities . |
| 13 | The January 1983 Medau News would contain an article explaining the new system to all and a letter would be sent to class secretaries ( some of whom may have changed since Sept. ) asking again for their help in encouraging membership amongst class members . |
| 14 | Her long dark tailored suits , with ridiculously feathered matching hats pinned to silvery hair , gave her the respect of all and an air of authority few would dream of challenging . |
| 15 | All but a couple of the bidders were too preoccupied to notice the latecomers . |
| 16 | We are all but a part of a whole which has its own , its distinct , its other meaning : we are not ourselves , we are crossroads , meeting places , points on a curve , we can not exist independently for we are nothing but signs , conjunctions , aggregations . |
| 17 | The failure of these traditional local economic strategies to stimulate and sustain local economic growth in all but a minority of places has led to the development of new forms of policy . |
| 18 | Then , to build upon that simple , flat definition of the hedge 's shape , pastel No. 199 , black , was scribbled across the same area , covering all but a strip at the top with an irregular criss-crossing scrawl . |
| 19 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 20 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 21 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 22 | The royal couple were unpopular at court , inspired little personal loyalty even among those whose respect for the throne was greatest , and their mounting preoccupation with the haemophiliac Tsarevich — and devotion to Rasputin — cut them off from all but a minute family circle . |
| 23 | Is n't that all but a miniature of your poor dead mother , God rest her ? |
| 24 | All but a miniature . |
| 25 | It was held that it was not copra cake at all but a substance quite different to that contracted for and , because of this , the sellers could not rely on an exclusion clause purporting to exempt them from liability . |
| 26 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 27 | At the Huntsman 's Inn in Ide , Kent , the refurbishment proposals were to involve demolitions so extensive that all but a portion of the building 's external wall would be destroyed , the planned reconstruction included an extension that would double the size of the original structure . |
| 28 | Yet all but a fraction of the carbon in living things originates as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ; as we will discuss below , it is turned into organic molecules by plants by the process of photosynthesis . |
| 29 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 30 | Halliday and Hasan do not discuss this type of referential linkage and Hoey ( 1988 : 162 ) points out that co-reference ‘ is not strictly a linguistic feature at all but a matter of real-world knowledge ’ . |