Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the lake , in the Decoy Lodge , the mood was less exalted , for eventually all the demons of solitude came to visit Louisa Agnew where she worked alone . |
| 2 | Spanish and he goes , he knew what I was talking about so all of a sudden he goes ah so tell me a bit about this erm this Melissa so I said |
| 3 | We must look after not all of the sport , the high flyers , the starters , the beginners and those who just go out for enjoyment and potter . |
| 4 | Not all people who recurrently diet or who are excessively thin are necessarily anorexic just as not all people who drink regularly or excessively are necessarily alcoholic . |
| 5 | Although the 12 such patients were identified for more than 400 patients with DU examined , this may not represent the true prevalence of H pylori negative patients with DU as not all the 400 patients with DU had their H pylori state determined with the same stringency . |
| 6 | For not all of Labour 's changes would be reactionary . |
| 7 | For not all jobs are interesting or satisfying . |
| 8 | There is nothing ‘ natural ’ about heterosexual intercourse , for not all human beings engage in this activity as a major form of sexuality . |
| 9 | The theory is not applicable to all matrilineal societies , for not all of these societies developed totemic rituals and structures . |
| 10 | But so too have been the threats , for not all were able to respond adequately to the new standards set by the leaders . |
| 11 | ( Later it will become clear that this picture is somewhat over-simplified , for not all instances fall neatly into one or another of these categories . |
| 12 | There are problems with this procedure , for not all functions can be so neatly labelled , nor is there always such a neat correspondence between a single utterance and a single function . |
| 13 | I think the climber Messner is the greatest mountaineer of perhaps all time . |
| 14 | The ancestors of practically all the animals that live on the vast plains of western India originally came from the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East . |
| 15 | In fact they may be seen as at the root of practically all marital and sexual dissonance . |
| 16 | The mere fact that all the classic ammonite zones of the European Lower Jurassic have been recognised , in the right order , in North America is surely remarkable , as is the persistence of practically all the Ordovician and Silurian graptolite zones from the U.K. to China . |
| 17 | There are compact , slow-growing forms of nearly all our native trees , but though these are always my first option I consider it a mistake to limit planting choice to our indigenous flora . |
| 18 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 19 | A very high proportion of nearly all industrialized countries ' aid is tied to their own goods or personnel . |
| 20 | Tidal mudflats occur at the mouths of nearly all Sussex rivers , along the coast principally at Pevensey Bay and from Pett to Rye Bay , and most notably in the tidal basins of Pagham and Chichester Harbours . |
| 21 | Severe winters greatly inflate the numbers of nearly all wintering wildfowl . |
| 22 | This trend culminated in the overwhelming vote of members of the RICS at an Extraordinary General Meeting in July 1986 in favour of the removal of nearly all the restrictions on practising with limited liability , whether as a public company with outside investment or as a private company still owned by chartered surveyor shareholders . |
| 23 | Yet Holiday manages to make something out of nearly all of them . |
| 24 | Before allowing her own words to express her story , it might be helpful to speak of the policy and practice of nearly all missionary societies fifty years ago . |
| 25 | There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying . |
| 26 | From 1984 onwards IBM increasingly faced not only a series of alliances , but a grand alliance of nearly all other computer companies in the world . |
| 27 | It was the filling of nearly all the offices of government and administration of the laws by citizens chosen , not by competitive election , but by lot . |
| 28 | Nowadays , the results of nearly all such surveys are plotted by computer , which offers a wide range of diagrammatic methods to portray the results . |
| 29 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've had the results of nearly all the tests , ’ he said , ‘ which are more or less what we expected . |