Example sentences of "[noun] of all " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 2 | Women , being closer to nature because of their biology , were more likely to be overcome by powerful feelings , and the burden therefore fell upon women to control themselves , for their good and for the good of all around them . |
| 3 | To enter the book draw , just send your name and address on a postcard , and do n't forget to state whether you would prefer books from only one category or a mix of all ( please give the age of child if applicable ) , to SHE/Books for Giving Offer , BA Marketing , Minster House , 272 Vauxhall Bridge Road , London SW1V 1BA , by November 30 . |
| 4 | Because students are usually taught four-part harmony , and there are four conventional voices ( soprano , alto , tenor , and bass ) , they tend always to write for the conventional four-part mixed choir , thus ignoring the existence of the most common voices of all ( mezzo soprano and baritone ) . |
| 5 | To put it another way : when the cat is on heat ( which she has n't been since the vet gave her the unkindest cut of all ) , nevertheless when she was , she had very little time for chasing moths hanging unsubtly round the fridge or cuddling up for a neck scratch . |
| 6 | Virgin Atlantic 's Hot Air is a bit of all right . |
| 7 | " A bit of all right . " |
| 8 | He watched the television at night , all night , making remarks like ‘ That 's a bit of all right ’ at the girls , or ‘ Kill him ’ to the wrestlers . |
| 9 | We could ‘ ave tea at Ma 's , and then go up West in the evenin' fer a bit of all right . ’ |
| 10 | And she closed one eye in a grotesque wink , leaving Sally-Anne to guess what the bit of all right was — a visit to a music hall or a theatre , she assumed — wrongly , for she still had a lot to learn about the ways of the aliens among whom she lived . |
| 11 | She 's a bit of all right . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Good first half , ’ Bernie licked Mansfield Bitter from his moustache , ‘ that blonde 's a bit of all right . |
| 13 | The combined effect of these provisions is to give a power of summary arrest in the case of all the more serious offences and many of the most commonly committed offences , e.g. murder , manslaughter , the major offences against the person , offences under the Criminal Damage Act and almost all the Theft Act offences . |
| 14 | He was working for unity among all the peoples of their country and he hoped this would lead to ‘ the complete unity of all South East Asia countries ’ . |
| 15 | Theirs is sometimes a robust way with Mozart , but it remains pleasantly flexible both tonally and rhythmically , and in the first work of all ( K19 d ) they show the kind of skill that unfussily makes the natural-sounding best of the conventional material written by a boy of nine on his London visit . |
| 16 | You might also prefer to work to a looser tension for this type of all over cable pattern . |
| 17 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |
| 18 | and the Sunday morning sort of all round Paris and all that . |
| 19 | just a bit sort of all right . |
| 20 | While welcoming moves by European leaders at Maastricht [ see p. 38658 ] towards " the eventual framing of a common [ European ] defence policy " , the statement underlined NATO 's " transatlantic links " and " the indivisibility of security of all [ its ] members " . |
| 21 | Rather than delve more into the riches of Dinah 's more earthy blues recordings , it concentrates on her versions of all too familiar standards , the staple diet of supper club crooners the world over ; |
| 22 | Between 1973 and 1979 all but one of the five most highly paid occupational groups experienced a fall in their real incomes : members of the most highly paid occupational group of all ( professional , management , administration ) saw their incomes fall by 5 per cent in real terms . |
| 23 | Members work within a closely defined mandate : to seek the release of prisoners of conscience — people imprisoned solely for their beliefs , colour , ethnic origin , sex , language or religion , provided they have neither used nor advocated the use of violence ; to ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners ; to oppose the death penalty , torture and other cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of all prisoners. ; and to end extrajudicial executions and ‘ disappearances ’ . |
| 24 | Whenever the conductor , used to the dictorial rigours of the East , complains about the disruptive behaviour of all around him he is told , ‘ that is democracy ’ . |
| 25 | A quarter of all 16–18 year olds are now taking part in these schemes . |
| 26 | This pleasant , open admiration was doing wonders for her self-confidence , and once more they plunged into conversation to the exclusion of all around them . |
| 27 | Others formed their tastes on the other side of the 1976 watershed : this means that the music they grew up with ( the most potent music of all ) was Never Mind The Bollocks . |
| 28 | Even if it did n't lead to the elimination of all the older , ‘ flawed ’ models , a narrow range of ‘ new ’ species might well reduce the older ones to huddled groups in farming heritage parks . |
| 29 | The best thing of all has been the chance of taking part in this war … |
| 30 | But the funniest thing of all was that the flat she was going in , the floor area was less than the one she 'd left . |