Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] all [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus in his Risen Being will still be grieved by all the tragedies , injustices and selfish motivations of the world . |
| 2 | A good defence lawyer would now be armed with all the mitigating circumstances of your life : mental records , character witnesses , … any reason why your life should be spared . |
| 3 | At its worst extreme , and particularly where the panel is a voluntary committee , all of whom are giving their time for nothing , the selection may well be made without all the panel having interviewed the candidate . |
| 4 | This plug could not readily be used for all the connections since a dedicated line is not available on it , whereas on the ROM location is dedicated to that specific address block . |
| 5 | The hard disc can then be formatted before all the files are restored . |
| 6 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |