Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 2 | They will want strong churches to reproduce themselves to make this easy rather than working against it , enjoying the fact that it will sometimes mean breaking through the parish boundaries for the greater good of enabling all of the people in all the parishes to hear all the gospel . |
| 3 | Caution will be the name of the game as he attempts to collect more points and take another step towards fulfilling his ambition of winning all remaining fixtures before the December retirement . |
| 4 | Dingleton 's practice of seeing all patients in their own homes ( or occasionally the general practitioner 's surgery ) has never been systematically evaluated . |
| 5 | An LEA adopted the practice of hearing all secondary school admissions appeals before making any decisions on individual cases . |
| 6 | Mrs Hewer was explaining the Professor 's eminently instructive practice of labelling all the plants not only with their full names and varieties but also with the date of planting . |
| 7 | The Queen has adopted her standard practice of ignoring all the criticism and dissatisfaction in the belief that it will eventually go away . |
| 8 | The practice of fingerprinting all aliens within Japan had become symbolic of general racial discrimination against the large Korean population . |
| 9 | Reynolds ' strategy for developing and maintaining his prized elitist image was an obsessive attention to detail , high standards and team spirit ; but his practice of circulating all the office paperwork as a system of mutual quality-control , combined with Roche-style hands-on management on occasion , occasionally backfired and some consultants left . |
| 10 | This is in contrast to the practice of putting all the colours in the collection on the palette at once . |
| 11 | In contrast , the practice of storing all the crops in barns and so of erecting large buildings , continued well into the nineteenth century in the south of England and East Anglia . |
| 12 | at least some latitude , within the system , for personal judgement about individual special circumstances — we were for example impressed by what Debenhams told us about their practice of offering all applicants who were refused credit the opportunity of a review of their proposal by a senior manager , ; |
| 13 | Therefore , I regret Labour 's stated intention of abolishing all museums charges , because that would remove from museums the opportunity to be flexible about staying open later , to improve services and generally to meet the added requirements of the public . |
| 14 | There was , then , no intention of repudiating all the work of the clubs , brigades , and the Scouts . |
| 15 | In a declaration issued on April 24 , the SLORC announced its intention of releasing all people who had been " detained for political reasons " . |
| 16 | It had the effect of startling all of them and silencing any other refusals . |
| 17 | The passion infusing his remarks had the effect of subduing all four of them . |
| 18 | This has had the effect of including all the profits and net assets of the company in the group accounts , with appropriate adjustments for the minority interest . |
| 19 | But at least one ingredient in the extraordinary reversal of expectation must have been the cumulative effect of seeing all those smug Labour front-bench faces oozing such complacency about their forthcoming victory in the weeks before the poll — Roy Hattersley , Robin Cook , Jack Cunningham , Bryan Gould . |
| 20 | She suppressed it quickly and guiltily , but not before she had been rewarded by an equally amused glance from Dr Russell , which had the unfortunate effect of turning all her limbs to jelly at once . |
| 21 | It had the effect of driving all parties to the debate into separate corners : the employers wished to preserve the status quo . |
| 22 | A further difficulty is the impossibility of including all criminal acts in a questionnaire or interview . |
| 23 | Unless we perform the impossibility of checking all their instances , they always risk falsification by one counter-instance . |
| 24 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |
| 25 | From this Time to that of her Death , few Days pass 'd in which I did not either see or hear from her ; for she gave me the Pleasure of seeing all her Poems as soon as they were finish 'd |
| 26 | There is some talk of putting all pilots , glider and balloon in the Class II group . |
| 27 | This talk of laughing all the way to the bank reminds me of a delightful line from Shakespeare : |
| 28 | Capability of processing all Black and White films and of producing Black and White prints up to 20 ’ x 16 ’ . |
| 29 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 30 | ‘ The Service also has the responsibility of helping all students to achieve their aspirations in the fields of employment and postgraduate studies and to gather and collate statistics on first destinations . ’ |