Example sentences of "[prep] all [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
2 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
3 | The agency must first of all set up an inventory of the assets under its control and it disposes of either the management or of the ownership of the assets vested in it . |
4 | The programme first of all explains how a Bouncer works on fitness in general and in rehabilitation plus other problems such as arthritis . |
5 | It took her no time at all to turn over the bed along by the rickety fence . |
6 | But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch . |
7 | It takes hardly any time at all to swoosh down a can of cola , and neither does this seem to have any effect in satisfying the appetite . |
8 | ‘ You 'll have no problem at all filling in a couple of hours with all the Princes Street shops to keep you occupied . |
9 | It is not at all clear why a person 's life-style , behaviour ( both linguistic and non-linguistic ) and opportunities should be so radically affected by his or her father 's occupation . |
10 | It is not at all clear why a plaintiff seeking material located in , say , France or Germany , but able to invoke United States jurisdiction ( available , perhaps , as a result of the long-arm claims to extensive jurisdiction made by Federal or State courts ) should be able to claim that American practices should apply as exclusively as in a purely domestic case . |
11 | It is not at all clear why the author(s) of the Philippos and Zoophilus letters chose to write under pseudonyms . |