Example sentences of "all were [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The exhibition is not simply a display of painted nudes ( and there are only four examples of the male nude ) ; rather , as the introductory text tells us : ‘ All were painted with the nude model directly in front of the artist ’ .
2 Buttercups , daisies , cranesbill , the red purple of clover , all were pushing through the new grass of the meadows .
3 Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences .
4 All were charged under the National Security Law which provided for a maximum penalty of death by hanging .
5 These after all were stated in the original RAWP 's terms of reference and remain as valid now as they were in 1975 .
6 The hierarchies of esteem in which they were held differed widely from one culture to another until all were engulfed in the pecuniary measure of values common to the world market .
7 Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied .
8 All died soon after , as did the mother , and all were buried in the same sepulchre .
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