Example sentences of "for all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice Adams , formerly Deputy Director with responsibility for new developments in the UK and overseas , is now General Manager of Acet with responsibility for all ACET operations . |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 3 | ‘ I would like to thank you and your Team for all the effort and resources you have put into providing a home care service for our patients . |
| 4 | Amnesty International opposes torture and the death penalty in all cases without reservation and advocates fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners . |
| 5 | The horrors must be stopped everywhere once and for all . |
| 6 | Groups went in for all kinds of sponsored walks , knit-ins , beard-shavings , and even silence . |
| 7 | But if , as Longinus thinks , the sublime , being the highest excellence that human composition can attain to , abundantly compensates the absence of every other beauty , and atones for all other deficiencies , then Michelangelo demands the preference . |
| 8 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 9 | In addressing itself to such possibilities , however , A Bend in the River , for all its air of simplicity , is never simple . |
| 10 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 11 | For all his standard procedures , I do n't think he is actually imitating anybody . |
| 12 | The British reader , who is likely to have been spared certain of the varieties of suffering which are spoken of in the writings of Kundera and Klima , where a joke , or no joke , or nothing whatever , can sequester you for years from the people you grew up with , is in a position , for all that , to know what Sabina means here . |
| 13 | These upper-class pensées lighten the load of an odyssey whose ports of call , for all her evocations , are barely distinguishable from one another . |
| 14 | Here and elsewhere , the method , for all that Amis would hate to hear it , is dialectical . |
| 15 | But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist . |
| 16 | In The Facts , the tough guy with his shiksas , the supposedly ‘ self-hating ’ Diaspora Jew , can be ‘ tenderised ’ — a word Roth likes , for all the awkwardness it imparts to the operations to which it refers — into a sort of uxorious submission where his parents are concerned . |
| 17 | The cost of training at a summer school over a five-week period will vary with the different establishments , but the overall fee is likely to be around £700 ( 1990 prices ) , for all students , whether from Britain or overseas . |
| 18 | Sell when you can , you are not for all markets . |
| 19 | A very well known audition piece , but nonetheless valid for all that . |
| 20 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 21 | As Ireland opened up to foreign investment under de Valera 's successor , Sean Lemass , another element in the value structure came to prominence , namely the obligation to achieve and retain full employment within the context of a modernized economy and a satisfactory level of housing , welfare , and medical care for all . |
| 22 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 23 | To begin at the right time , he wrote , means to be done with excuses once and for all . |
| 24 | Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination , all creatures which can say no ? |
| 25 | If I could only resolve that lower right hand panel though , he wrote , or even decide once and for all to leave it empty , then perhaps the boredom would disappear . |
| 26 | Perhaps that is the difference , wrote Harsnet , between me and someone like Goldberg , for all his energy and ambition . |
| 27 | It was worth waiting for all her life , she said . |
| 28 | I have great admiration for all those involved in the Academy of Culinary Arts and think it a fine , courageous and important creation , but can someone explain how a meal of such ineptitude can be served in its name , and how some of the best chefs and restaurateurs in the world can have eaten it without public comment ? |
| 29 | The number of hotel-based leisure complexes that do not take into consideration the operation of a facility at the same time as its aesthetics are plain for all to see . |
| 30 | As data security is such a fundamental issue for all computer users , programs which enable back-ups to be taken are supplied with each PC . |