Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 2 | In the normal course of events by no means all of these potential relationships will exist , but in an emergency , when the project manager may feel constrained to supervise all individual and joint activities , very large numbers are clearly possible if organizational steps have not been taken to provide effective control . |
| 3 | Now of course the difficulty you ca n't i it 's a personal thing and you do n't like standing watching all this operation going on for too long . |
| 4 | To create this structure and make it work meant harnessing all C&P 's human talent — and the response was there . |
| 5 | ‘ Would Everard have stopped to consider all that ? ’ he mused doubtfully . |
| 6 | I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant . |
| 7 | If we now ask how we could discover that all action is to be explained in non-intentional terms , and at the same time take the point that it could not be non-intentional in the way that mad or childish behaviour is , it seems that we should have to come to see all action quite differently . |
| 8 | If the trumpets of Britain had not been blown loud and long from St Mary 's , a different myth would have grown giving all the credit to America . |
| 9 | ‘ Mind you , it ca n't have helped working all this time for Ricky France-Lynch . |
| 10 | Would I have bothered to go all the way into town if we had arranged to meet here ? ’ |
| 11 | On these grounds she would have preferred to give all selected schools £4,000 rather than select generally mediocre candidates into two categories . |
| 12 | You 'll have to let get all the way . |
| 13 | And it , you do n't have to keep changing all the paper , you just and it does it . |
| 14 | This is not really good enough for a supposedly authoritative special publication under the RSC 's banner and I feel that , overall , a more convincing book might have emerged had all the papers been independently refereed . |
| 15 | We should try to stop cutting all the trees down because soon all the animals wo n't have homes . |
| 16 | It would not have warranted summoning all district society presidents to London for a brief meeting , but the value gained from these was particularly significant . |
| 17 | He wants countries to be made to co-ordinate their fiscal policies so that monetary policy does not have to take take all the strain . |
| 18 | By the mid-1980s there were very few people who would have pretended to understand all the ramifications of Grant Related Expenditure Assessments , rate-capping or capital controls . |
| 19 | Held , granting the petition , that where the hearing of an action was divided into two parts and there was an appeal to the Court of Appeal of New Zealand after the determination on the first part , justice required that an appeal therefrom to the Privy Council should lie if such an appeal would have lain had all the issues been determined prior to the appeal to the Court of Appeal ; that , accordingly , the judgment of the Court of Appeal deciding the compromise and cancellation issues in the respondents ' favour and dismissing the petitioner 's action was a final judgment for the purposes of rule 2 ( a ) of the New Zealand ( Appeals to the Privy Council ) Order 1910 entitling the petitioner to appeal as of right to the Privy Council ; and that , therefore , the Court of Appeal had erred in refusing to grant the petitioner leave to appeal and the Board in the exercise of its discretion would grant the petitioner special leave to appeal ( post , pp. 6G , 8B , D , F ) . |
| 20 | Although at first sight the quotations reproduced above may seem to have said all that needs to be said , it will be worthwhile trying to specify exactly the mechanisms by which associative mediation theory generates the effects that need to be explained . |