Example sentences of "of [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |
| 2 | Erm chairman yes we hope to erm , excuse me , to erm that E four will be capable of er sorry E F two thousand will be capable of handling all our erm planned weapons er which are already in our programme the er conventional er , the C A S O M , the conventionally armed , stand-off missile , the er anti- armour missile er twelve thirty eight and the future medium range air-to-air missile er whatever that happens to be er as a result of er competition . |
| 3 | We may arrive in sight of the same conclusion , near enough to see the possibility of rooting all valuation in a single principle of awareness , by an approach from the opposite direction . |
| 4 | The passion infusing his remarks had the effect of subduing all four of them . |
| 5 | If you 're tired of typing all the time , you may be relieved to know that the keyboard could soon be a thing of the past , thanks to rapid developments in the world of pen based computing . |
| 6 | The soft tones of the colour range always produce a successful design and the joy of using all the silvery tones is that they last so well In many cases , the silver-grey effect is created by the very small hairs on the underside of the flower or leaf , which catch the light and give a lovely overall tone to the picture . |
| 7 | That the members of the department consider the value of using all the resources of the department , when , where and if necessary , for example , use of slides with groups lower down the school . |
| 8 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 9 | Relevance in that C&P 's whole philosophy is to identify market requirements and fulfil them , and excellence in terms of using all its scientific power to achieve world leadership in selected areas . |
| 10 | And , I do n't know , it seems that actually you 've got a very good sense of using all those traditions to inform things that happen , things that you do and erm you 're not locked in being regarded as in that sort of tradition and the pressures that result from that . |
| 11 | while individual ‘ stress-coping ’ strategies do help to alleviate the symptoms of stress , only an organisational approach to reducing stress has a real chance of helping all teachers . |
| 12 | It preaches the virtues of helping all hardship cases , but the old rating system to which the Opposition wish to return would impose considerable costs on students , as it did before . |
| 13 | ‘ The Service also has the responsibility of helping all students to achieve their aspirations in the fields of employment and postgraduate studies and to gather and collate statistics on first destinations . ’ |
| 14 | But at least one ingredient in the extraordinary reversal of expectation must have been the cumulative effect of seeing all those smug Labour front-bench faces oozing such complacency about their forthcoming victory in the weeks before the poll — Roy Hattersley , Robin Cook , Jack Cunningham , Bryan Gould . |
| 15 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 16 | And during his four years on the job he had the satisfaction of seeing all three major contracts renewed in competitive tender . |
| 17 | Dingleton 's practice of seeing all patients in their own homes ( or occasionally the general practitioner 's surgery ) has never been systematically evaluated . |
| 18 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 19 | The Court thought that such rights would restrict the authorities ' discretion , and the job of circularising all shareholders with the relevant information prior to cancellation would be too expensive and difficult . |
| 20 | Japan has provided substantial economic and technological assistance to the PRC , but the Chinese have been wary of accepting all that Japan has offered . |
| 21 | Bauer argued that nations were not , as Marx argued , temporary historical formations produced by the rise and rule of the bourgeoisie , but of great antiquity , capable of outlasting all economic change , the residue of the history of a people , ‘ the totality of men bound , together through a common destiny in a community of character ’ . |
| 22 | A further difficulty is the impossibility of including all criminal acts in a questionnaire or interview . |
| 23 | This has had the effect of including all the profits and net assets of the company in the group accounts , with appropriate adjustments for the minority interest . |
| 24 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 25 | If it 's okay with you , I 'd rather we wait till the moon goes in again , an ’ take a chance on crossin' from here … instead of goin' all the way round there in the trees , I mean . |
| 26 | Mrs Hewer was explaining the Professor 's eminently instructive practice of labelling all the plants not only with their full names and varieties but also with the date of planting . |
| 27 | I do not want to ignore the wood for the sake of labelling all the trees . |
| 28 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 29 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 30 | As with most of the Doctor Who stories of this period , the job of building all the special hardware and models was farmed out to the Shawcraft firm of prop-builders . |