Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] all [art] " in BNC.

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1 For yourself or for all the others ?
2 If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective .
3 7.6.3.2 any of the Permissions have been granted subject to a lawful condition with which [ it would be impossible for or in all the circumstances it would be unreasonable to expect ] the Landlord to comply
4 In the full sense of the word , it is arguable that nobody was governed before the later nineteenth century ; it would certainly be foolish to maintain that either royal or princely government in the twelfth century operated according to fixed rules or without intermission or over all the inhabitants of a defined area .
5 Indeed , each of the five times since 1915 that there has been a minority government in power it has been Labour , dependent either on the Liberals ' support , their abstentions , or on all the other parties not uniting to defeat them .
6 One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago .
7 One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago .
8 The answer did not finish with the statement that for all the natural beauty above ground , Lesotho had no wealth below .
9 Before we know the words for it , before we know that there are words , out we come , bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world , there 's only one direction , and time is its only measure .
10 Where Johnson exercised great prudence in his remarks , both in his own text and in his letters to Mrs Thrale , Boswell took a different line ; having concluded his great notation of Flora Macdonald 's exciting tale , Boswell summarised that for all the Highlanders ’ dedication to the Stuart Cause , he ‘ found every where among them a high opinion of the virtues of the King now upon the throne , and an honest disposition to be faithful subjects to his majesty … ’
11 He had opted for the cynical , guarded approach , and now he could see that for all the safety it had brought him — here he was , in his second year , still solvent , heart intact , unmugged and even succeeding in his studies , despite all his mother 's fears — every defence had its price , and he had paid in a separating distance , incomprehension .
12 I 'm also well aware that for all the people who take thirtysomething to their hearts , there are at least as many who ca n't abide it .
13 That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom .
14 They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush .
15 It is a tragedy that for all the sacrifices made the problem has yet to be resolved ’ Joe Mills , Northern regional secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union .
16 I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book .
17 Fletcher ( op. cit. ) has commented that during all the years when Bennett was studying the Scottish flora and publishing records , he did not once visit Scotland .
18 Well as I understand it the er these lawyers for the defendants took the view that as all the statements had been prepared for the police complaints authority investigation , public immunity er yes er public interest immunity attached to them .
19 Myles had more understanding and sympathy for this character than for all the others he had ever read about .
20 What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it .
21 Over thousands of years it has been recognized that the human body has a non-physical component , and it is striking that through all the descriptions there is a strong energy theme .
22 But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation .
23 If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons .
24 ‘ The Purple Hour , ’ said Raynor softly , and Grainne smiled , and thought that after all the old legends and the old myths had been right .
25 It may be , though , that after all the locations best related to local land uses had been considered , the most defensible site was selected if local considerations dictated that a better-defended site might be a good idea .
26 Is it not the case that after all the hype and hopes that were insinuated in the debate , the Scottish Office is toeing the Ministry of Defence line ?
27 Hooper said that after all the speculation it would be ‘ disappointing , but not the end of the world ’ if he were left out against Spartak .
28 Hooper said that after all the speculation it would be ‘ disappointing , but not the end of the world ’ if he were left out against Spartak .
29 We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing .
30 Heather played the pacifist role , pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite .
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