Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I were to find such a change taking place while an animal is learning , unless the conditions for that change met all the subsequent criteria , I would be no further forward than the experiments of the 1960s that I criticized in the last chapter . |
| 2 | Well that story came all the way from Africa . |
| 3 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election the Alliance with 22.6% of the national vote won 3.4% of the seats ; Labour with 61.8% of the city vote won all of the eleven seats in Glasgow , and the Conservatives with 52.1% of the regional vote won all but one of the 20 seats in East Anglia . |
| 4 | This gang repaired all types of horsedrawn vehicle , floats , drays , trolleys , lorries and timber carriages . |
| 5 | This decision eliminated all but the following thirteen countries : Australia , Britain , Canada , Denmark , India , Indonesia , Israel , Japan , The Philippines , South Africa , Uganda , the USA and West Germany . |
| 6 | ‘ The high priest got all the young good-looking ones while I was left with the old fat ones . ’ |
| 7 | This study examined all the women who had had hysterectomy and cholecystectomy in a defined population ( 79 and 37 respectively , out of 1058 ) to explore unsubstantiated beliefs that link these operations with bowel dysfunction . |
| 8 | The Public Enemy broke all box-office records and forced the critics to think again about the new sociological dimension of the movies . |
| 9 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 10 | From the white washed wooden ceiling hung all sorts of items — lamps , cycle frames , farm and garden implements and dozens of other things . |
| 11 | The old lady took all her money out of the bank and made plans to leave Sheffield the next day . |
| 12 | ‘ This child braved all our displeasure to bring you here . ’ |
| 13 | Although the rural district councils were swept away , the 1972 Act retained all existing parish councils in England . |
| 14 | This place had all the answers . |
| 15 | In the high grade group , 48% had raised erythrocyte sedimentation rates , 28% serum lactate dehydrogenase values over 500 U/l , 24% raised alkaline phosphatase activities , 24% low total protein concentrations , and 16% anaemia ; only 4% of patients in this group had all determinations within normal ranges . |
| 16 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 17 | This match had all the ingredients which still make the British game the most exciting to watch in the world — speed , commitment and flair . |
| 18 | In spite of its limited aims and low-level implementation , the success of this prototype exceeded all reasonable expectations . |
| 19 | This edition included all the sketches and tales in the First and Second Series plus one more , ‘ The Tuggses at Ramsgate ’ previously published in The Library of Fiction . |
| 20 | This race had all the earmarks of a mediocre 1,000 Guineas rehearsal and it was no great surprise to see Musicale , the winner of last Friday 's Fred Darling Stakes , at Newbury , cut to as low as 11–4 favourite for the 1,000 Guineas , on April 30 after yesterday 's race . |
| 21 | Thomas Cook 's entrepreneurial spirit , enthusiastic vision and social conscience changed all that . |
| 22 | They may have been politically naive in character and open to attack , but their proponents desired to ensure that sound scientific knowledge under-pinned all actions to protect wildlife resources . |
| 23 | I am quite a pleader at times and this occasion surpassed all previous pleads imaginable . |
| 24 | Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools . |
| 25 | We could n't argue , for Thistle 's chance of taking anything from this game lasted all of 58 seconds . |
| 26 | The change in definition does , however , affect the treatment of local authority expenditure ; the old definition included all local authority expenditure , whereas the new definition covers only the support for this expenditure provided by central government , i.e. it excludes expenditure which local authorities finance themselves . |
| 27 | As Hitler extended his European empire , and the threat to the British Isles came closer , this policy lost all credibility . |
| 28 | In retrospect , it is not in the least surprising that the provision of this space generated all kinds of questions about the nature of the ‘ lesbian and gay community ’ . |
| 29 | British Gas denied all knowledge of such an incident . |
| 30 | This thought contained all others . |