Example sentences of "all [subord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain was played as an idiot who hardly danced at all except to full over his own feet . |
| 2 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 3 | ‘ No , nothing at all , not a mention of Elsie at all except on her birthday . |
| 4 | There is a dispute about which units matter , or even whether units matter at all except as dependent variables . |
| 5 | Robert Owen is not to be understood at all except as a man of his time , of the French Political and the British Industrial Revolutions ; nor fully to be understood except as a man of the first stage of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if we ignore the ego and its functions in man and concentrate on his instincts as if they could totally account for his behaviour as they do in animals who lack an ego , we should fall into the alternative trap of failing to account for his culture at all except as the outcome of doubtful instinctual behaviour of an altruistic or civilized kind . |
| 7 | Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools . |
| 8 | The first group of three do not keep newspapers or magazines in hard copy at all except for the specialist journals which are retained for one year . |
| 9 | No firewood could be chopped up until after the landlord had called so the room was clean and tidy , all except for the odd quarry tile Dad had broken during the wood-chopping . |
| 10 | Of the five different categories of troops all except for allies are covered by the list in this book . |
| 11 | It was announced on March 31 that subsidies were to be lifted from 16 consumer commodities , i.e. all except for semolina , flour , milk and bread . |
| 12 | ‘ Practising egalitarianism ’ involves equal incomes for all except for allowances for differences in need . |
| 13 | Among his close relatives , Gregory numbered bishops of Lyons , Clermont and Langres , and he claimed that all except for five bishops of Tours were related to him . |
| 14 | By limiting itself to cautious probing on the 21st ( all except for the disobedient von Zwehl who had registered the day 's only success ) , it had lost a valuable day . |
| 15 | Before 1987 legislation governing pollution control did n't fully apply to tidal waters , and discharges into the sea and many older discharges to estuaries did n't require consent at all except for substances like mercury . |
| 16 | Expressed in other terms , ‘ the Commonwealth ’ is not a political entity , or indeed an entity at all except in make-believe . |
| 17 | Figure 3.3 shows the recessive pattern : palatalization is hardly present at all except in males over 40 , and the area which has the most recent immigration from the country is the most conservative . |
| 18 | The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms . |
| 19 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 20 | It was the same story every time : nothing at all until at last the significance of the date went home — ‘ But that was the day it was snowing , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 21 | Certainly , but then De Gaulle was only the most recent of a line of French national leaders , going back at least as far as Joan of Arc , who have seen in the English , through most of the centuries , their main enemy , whereas of course we did n't come across Germany internationally at all until within the last ninety years . |
| 22 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 23 | They 're all cos of the heart trouble in the family , you know . |
| 24 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 25 | That were all , all cos of the war , see ? |
| 26 | I never cut them all till about beyond the middle of June . |
| 27 | Now I 'm up early , full of energy and have a new outlook on life all because of Rags , my wonderful dog . |
| 28 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 29 | Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off . |
| 30 | And all because of trees . |