Example sentences of "all [adj] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are introduced to Pemberton at the point where he is screwing up courage to say something about money , and all that happens in the subsequent two paragraphs is that the boy returns and his effort is frustrated . |
| 2 | The sun is n't all that glitters in the famous sun-kissed resort of Acapulco . |
| 3 | Near to it stands the Wailing Wall which is all that remains of the ancient Jewish Temple , . |
| 4 | Now it appears that nothing can prevent the enthusiastic fossilisation of all that remains of the revolutionary structures of 1919–39 . |
| 5 | All that remains of the Saussurean model is the primacy of language and an emphasis on the signifier , both of which are even more strongly asserted here than in poetics . |
| 6 | Part III is all that remains of the 1964 Act . |
| 7 | Under his leadership , the heavyweight investigative team was to produce reports which were a cross between the old Sunday Times Insight team and the occasional ‘ Shock Issues ’ which are all that remains of the old Mirror . |
| 8 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 9 | The coast is strewn with wreckage , with the keels of the overturned boats , all that remains of the twenty to thirty ships which lay at anchor here the day before . |
| 10 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 11 | Here the load of a river is mainly mud and sand which is almost all that remains of the larger stones and boulders which have bounced and trundled many kilometres down river . |
| 12 | In the VSEL yard a brass bell hangs in a museum of shipbuilding , all that remains of the original HMS Vanguard which was sunk in Scapa Flow . |
| 13 | THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION : Smashed and mangled metal around the battered tailplane is all that remains of the doomed airbus in which 167 people were killed |
| 14 | Most of the industrial machinery is now housed in the National Technical Museum in Letná while all that remains in the private family apartments of the brewery is a sewing machine of 1862 by Wheeler and Wilson from Bridgeport , Connecticut , and a large part of the library and fine photographic collection . |
| 15 | All that argues for the vigorous pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation . |
| 16 | All that exists of the imposing dwelling is a few feet of wall and an open fireplace adjoining Cumnor Church . |
| 17 | To the rear of these houses are remains of an old barn , rapidly falling into decay , all that exists from the original farm . |
| 18 | However , the Catholic school will retain its right and obligation to proclaim the Christian message and all that entails in the Christian faith tradition . |
| 19 | All this contrasts with the Young Socialists . |
| 20 | All this testifies to the extreme importance attached to every status-symbol in an avidly status-conscious age . |
| 21 | The plan to pay all 25 benefits from the same office — rather than make claimants chase about between different centres -was announced by Social Services Secretary Peter Lilley . |