Example sentences of "[to-vb] all [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers .
2 A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in loan notes of the bidder .
3 A bidder offering cash may allow accepting shareholders to elect to receive all or a part of their consideration in shares of the bidder .
4 In particular , what much of it fails to do is to convince all but a handful of academic specialists that its closely delineated studies are anything more than detailed local knowledge , an interesting but benign academic pursuit .
5 Mountain rescue and medical treatment arrangements vary from country to country and walkers may be liable to pay all or a portion of costs .
6 As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events .
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