Example sentences of "[pron] all [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next .
2 Willie Learmouth the session clerk came by today for the Intimations and he 's an awful nice man , one of Nature 's Gentlemen , went to Allan Glen 's when that meant something , his wife 's got a plastic hip but you never hear him complain , anyway he sat down to a wee cup of tea and naturally he could not resist my all butter shortbread ‘ Nettie , ’ says he , ‘ your petticoat tails would melt in a man 's mouth . ’
3 Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs …
4 he is now in direct confron competition with Darth Vader , my all time favourite villain .
5 Well Mr said he had n't been , sort of erm himself all week .
6 Objectification describes the inevitable process by which all expression , conscious or unconscious , social or individual , takes specific form .
7 So the decision was taken , in the interest of candidates , to introduced a fixed date by which all module results would have to be submitted .
8 Because of all this , there is a sense in which all assistance between relatives must be the subject of negotiations about when it is to be given , by whom , for how long , and on what terms .
9 If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate .
10 It was then the heyday of ‘ stimulus-response ’ theories of animal behaviour , according to which all behaviour patterns are learned responses to associated stimuli .
11 Despite the rapidity with which all pump strainers seem to block , there 's no doubt that a degree of filtration will take place in the foam as the mulm gathers .
12 Its reluctance is largely a result of the strict financial regime imposed by the government as part of its general campaign to improve efficiency in the public sector and under which all rail improvements have to demonstrate an 8% return on the capital before approval is granted .
13 To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois .
14 The result of such ‘ government ’ would be a nation in which all enterprise was stifled , all charity smothered , all industry stagnant , and all self-reliance stultified .
15 Ian Lakin , managing director of the Donside Paper Company in Aberdeen , said : ‘ There is no doubt that environmental costs are a key issue which all manufacturing companies are having to address .
16 Experience is , after all , part of the whole way in which all education happens , including RE , and it should not be associated with something particularly special or precious .
17 The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution .
18 Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant .
19 He recognizes the mythology of its English adherents , in which all criticism of their ideas attracts the charge of ‘ a characteristically insular suspicion of nasty foreign ideas ’ , but he is prepared to risk it , continuing :
20 For the standard enquiries always use one of the printed forms of requisitions , which all law stationers sell , being careful to delete irrelevant questions , such as those that relate to leaseholds when you are buying a freehold ; and as you add your own special requisitions arising on the particular title , tick your marking against each point on your notes on title .
21 The basic principle is the family , on which all life and civilisation depend .
22 He saw that WWF 's first requirement was to convince leaders of political , economic and social life that their own plans and ambitions could come to nothing if they were pursued without regard to those vital things on which all life depended .
23 Whereas the meeting-point between reader and author in imaginative creative literature is the recognition of particular aspects of experience shaped and clarified , these authors are trying to share their understanding of the means by which all experience can be understood .
24 Chapter seven , the hinge by which The Form opens to this level of significance , directly addresses itself to the essence of the contemplative life — certainty of being , through which all experience is transfigured to joy .
25 It envisages , that is , the possibility of a description of the world in which all subject terms refer to actual existents , and all explicit existential assertions give way to " existential presuppositions " .
26 In other words , the possibility is posited of a description of the world in which all subject terms refer to actual existents and all existential propositions are analysed out and replaced by " existential presuppositions " .
27 Moreover , at this level , PRINDEP 's analysis of the generic activities of which all curriculum practice is constituted showed the considerable imbalance discussed in detail in Chapters 3 and 4 .
28 They reject not only the Soviet claim that October and the overthrow of capitalism blazed the trail for which all humanity is destined , but the very notion of laws governing the historical process .
29 In an unpredictable , alien world in which all sense of certainty and reliability appeared to have disappeared , there was an urgent need to locate a positive and stable community of interests and values to be defended against the destructive , negative , death-like forces of a hostile universe .
30 The first lies in the extent to which all evidence adduced depends on guesswork .
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