Example sentences of "[det] in [adj] it " in BNC.

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1 All in all it was not turning out as badly as he had feared .
2 All in all it had been very enjoyable .
3 All in all it 's an experience I would not like to repeat .
4 All in all it adds up to power .
5 All in all it was a wide variety of clinical situations in which to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic treatment .
6 All in all it could be a long haul this season .
7 ‘ People on low incomes will be getting some help to pay the fuel bills and all in all it 's a Budget that 's not as bad as we expected , ’ Mr Bull said .
8 All in all it was a most satisfactory exercise .
9 The author is 28 , film options have already been sold , Penguin is pushing it , and all in all it 's terrific , a sophisticated literary novel that could straddle the markets .
10 The people in the business had lost confidence in themselves and all in all it was a dismal picture .
11 All in all it could be said to have been an amicable evening .
12 All in all it was with a feeling of indescribable joy that on the sixth day I saw a familiar figure coming towards me among the prompt arrivals .
13 Money is harder to come by , and all in all it 's a depressing time .
14 In spite of it being claimed that Sunday was the Lord 's day and therefore a day of rest , all in all it was one of the most tiring days of the week .
15 ‘ The teachers do n't teach , the priests do n't bother , and they 're releasing all the lunatics into the community so they do n't get looked after and they 'll either pass out from exposure or starvation or kill people because they 're mad , and then they 'll be slung into prison to add to the overcrowding , and all in all it does n't make a lot of sense .
16 Taken piece by piece , the face was lovely , almost ethereal , but taken all in all it was far from beauty .
17 All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home .
18 So all in all it 's best if I leave . ’
19 All in all it is a perfect match reel .
20 All in all it promises to be an exciting enjoyable and hard working year for Save The Children and all its supporters .
21 All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out .
22 All in all it had been a busy but constructive evening 's work .
23 All in all it was an excellent performance by North Down in the field , limiting the North West side to after they had won an important toss .
24 exactly , I mean this , this is , this is the I R A , they 're not part of any fucking small community they are the fucking community unto themselves and that 's is that , that was he 's answ erm , that was he 's answer to the question of do , do you believe him or something , you know , well all in all it was quite interesting
25 For this reason , some of the Prince 's closest friends were against the marriage ; they feared that with so little in common it could never work .
26 , I said that it 's I said you ai n't having that in cooked it .
27 We shall see that in the nineteenth century this limited and special capacity was extended with some modifications to all married women ( see pp. 50–4 ) ; but that in 1935 it was swept away , and married women were given the same capacity to own property and make contracts as a man .
28 Does he also agree that there has been a noticeable change of opinion in the business community , in that in 1990 it thought that we could go into the exchange rate mechanism without any disadvantage whereas it is now beginning to realise that the ERM obliges us to have a higher exchange rate and higher real interest rates than are appropriate for domestic needs ?
29 The vital thing is to make it obvious from the outset that literature is alive , that it is the sublimation of human thought , passion , feeling , that it is concerned with issues which are of universal interest , that in short it is flesh and blood and not stucco ornamentation .
30 NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed .
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