Example sentences of "in all [art] [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ RCA have been really understanding in all the things we do .
2 I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other .
3 The British swept aside traditional food-and-agriculture systems in all the countries they ruled , replacing them with food-store and cash-cropping .
4 This continues to be the case in all the countries we studied , although their potential is rarely fully developed and utilized .
5 Similar observations could be made about front-line paraprofessionals in all the countries we studied who are drawn from local communities or who share common experiences and characteristics with client groups .
6 In all the countries we studied there is a need to work toward developing more rational and systematic personnel systems that recognize that there are many types and levels of jobs in the social services and that clarify the nature of these jobs and the specific skills and knowledge required to perform them .
7 No country in the world is entirely self-sufficient in all the materials it uses .
8 Even one of the ‘ enemy ’ admired the ‘ valour and stoutness ’ of the Cornishmen and ‘ … never in all the wars he had been in did he know the like ’ .
9 In all the senses I felt that there was little support in helping me integrate my identity as a Black lesbian and ended up feeling totally alienated and with a complete loss of my self-confidence .
10 It came to pass that when the Lord had ascended from the water , the whole fountain of the Holy Spirit descended and rested upon him , and said to him , ‘ My Son , in all the prophets I looked for thee , that thou mightest come and I might rest in thee ; for thou art my rest , thou art my Son , my first-born , who art king for evermore . ’
11 In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood .
12 In all the cases I 've seen , when the hostages have been freed they have always understood the kidnappers ’ motives , always sympathized with them .
13 I personally , in all the cases I 've dealt with , which is seven and a half years , have only ever really gone to magistrates court but I 've got two cases going to crown court soon , but it 's exceptionally hard and to answer your question , I actually have never fou never got anyone to go to prison yet .
14 In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action .
15 In all the excitement I 've let the Repo Men go off-line . ’
16 I must confess that in all the times I read Madame Bovary , I never noticed the heroine 's rainbow eyes .
17 In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before .
18 This new order accords with the logic of Marx 's thinking , as we have seen it in all the works we have discussed so far .
19 For example , Nobinul noticed that in all the notations we had collected , two digits were used to express ten .
20 It must , however , be remembered that in all the studies he reviewed , all the employees had completed at least primary education .
21 Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
22 ( c ) Independent contractors Section 2(4) ( b ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger due to the faulty execution of any work of construction , maintenance or repair by an independent contractor employed by the occupier , the occupier is not to be treated without more as answerable for the danger if in all the circumstances he had acted reasonably in entrusting the work to an independent contractor and had taken such steps ( if any ) as he reasonably ought in order to satisfy himself that the contractor was competent and that the work had been properly done .
23 In all the circumstances I consider that the proper course is not to find if there 's any windfall element of the plaintiff 's parents and therefore to ignore such arguments .
24 I do n't think he finds what he 's looking for , cos after he looks in all the bins he goes off without taking nothing out .
25 As it turned out , we only once failed to find wild cocoa in all the areas we visited throughout the region .
26 All we 're asking for , as I think perhaps the council will knock it down anyway in all the letters they 've written you do n't .
27 In all the letters I received from David he was always slagging him off , ’ says Janet .
28 as if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built !
29 Listen , in all the spellings you 've got here , there is none A.
30 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 .
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