Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the heart of Trazior , as in every other hive on Necromunda , a vast tube of plasteel plunged all the way down through the crust of the planet . |
| 32 | The most negative moment of withdrawal contains all the potential for new growth . |
| 33 | I must as a matter of honour remove all possible ambiguities of expression , avoid any taint of pretence , or dishonesty , or literary sleight of hand . |
| 34 | An aura of anxiety affected all of us . |
| 35 | The Statutes of Westminster apparently extended the law of rape to cover all women , not merely virgins , but there is nothing in them to suggest that a man could be liable for rape of a woman with whom he had previously had consensual sexual intercourse . |
| 36 | The spectacular growth of Methodism changed all this ; the two generations before civil registration began in 1837 are often the most difficult for a genealogist because of this . |
| 37 | Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some implicit model of accountability underlies all forms of evaluation whatever their stated purposes ( an issue that was raised at the very beginning of Chapter 1 ) . |
| 38 | The English Parliament , somewhat ungratefully , used the restoration of peace to revive all its old objections to a standing army and eventually forced the king to get rid of all but 10,000 of his 30,000 troops , £350,000 a year being voted for the remainder , considered the minimum needed for home defence . |
| 39 | Family planning services are provided free of charge to encourage all those who wish to use the services to do so . |
| 40 | In a open letter to de Klerk and his Cabinet , the ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela threatened to break off talks on a post-apartheid constitution unless the government agreed to ( i ) legislation during the current parliamentary session to ban the carrying of weapons in public ; ( ii ) the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok , the Law and Order Minister , and of Gen. Magnus Malan , the Defence Minister ; ( iii ) the removal of military and police officers responsible for covert operations ; ( iv ) the public dismantling of all special counterinsurgency units ; ( v ) the suspension of police officers implicated in the killing of black demonstrators ; ( vi ) the closure of single-sex migrant workers ' hostels ; and ( vii ) an independent commission of inquiry to examine all allegations of misconduct by the security forces . |
| 41 | Meanwhile , in a move re-emphasising that parties across the political spectrum were affected by the issue of illegal funding , the PS on April 24 proposed the establishment of a parliamentary commission of inquiry to investigate all such illegal payments before the January 1990 law which granted the parties public funding . |
| 42 | It controls many trade unions including some of the big confederations , most notably the Shanghai General Labour Union , a sort of T U C really , erm for , do n't know whether it would bear much relation to the modern T U C in Britain , the erm , the sort of confederation uniting all of the unions in Shanghai , controlled by the Communist Party . |
| 43 | They were renouncing the wholesale cruelty which , with a uniform and general severity of punishment treated all , the unfortunate dupe as well as the designing knave , alike as guilty . |
| 44 | Two days of rain spoiled all my plans . ’ |
| 45 | Such a conception of labourism incorporates all non-marxist elements , including those within the Labour Party that had specifically middle-class origins and allegiances . |
| 46 | It retains much of its old-world charms but a newer half of town offers all modern amenities . |
| 47 | She had unconsciously put into practice the Winnie the Pooh principle , which rules that the most effective method of searching for a lost person or object is to get lost oneself on the assumption that some force of nature brings all forgotten things together in ignored niches and unfrequented locales . |
| 48 | is a a selection of product representing all six companies |
| 49 | Because of the width of the cabin , nearly five and a half feet , it follows that there is plenty of room to accommodate all this without the panel becoming cluttered . |
| 50 | Where a system of conscription operated all sorts of expedients were used to avoid service . |
| 51 | A modern work of importance describing all the main monastic sites still surviving is Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain by L. Butler and C. Given-Wilson ( London 1983 ) . |
| 52 | Cos I 'm fed up of stuff going all bubbly ! |
| 53 | Paragraph 33(b) and 890 of the National Conditions of Service cover all aspects of the Management Offer with the following exceptions . |
| 54 | The RET is , therefore , a national record of achievement covering all aspects of SCOTVEC 's system and is the first of its kind in Britain . |
| 55 | With its spectacular sunrises , fresh mountain air and inspiring tranquillity , early morning is the perfect time of day to explore all the outdoor pursuits that abound in Royal Deeside … |
| 56 | The reshaping of education incorporates all three of the main aims of Conservative social policy : privatisation ( including promotion of the enterprise culture ) , curbing local government and the creation of inequality . |
| 57 | The third stage of education covers all non-compulsory , post-school education . |
| 58 | It is pointed out , quite correctly , that an egg which consisted of a bag of water containing all the necessary genes would not develop : other structures and substances are needed . |
| 59 | However , a small bag of water containing all the different kinds of proteins — perhaps 10,000 to 100,000 kinds — that the genes of an elephant can code for is not an elephant , and would not turn into an elephant . |
| 60 | Mr Kearsley said the writ would be served on defendants as soon as the council had finalised its statement of claim cataloguing all the alleged problems in detail . |