Example sentences of "[prep] all [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 2 | The House of Commons Environment Committee ( which could be presumed to care about being popular ) , the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee ( which has more expertise and rather less concern with popularity ) and the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution ( which has most expertise of all and absolutely no interest in popularity ) have all been robustly and consistently critical of most parts of the waste-disposal chain . |
| 3 | So that erm if we 're talking to parents , for example , about being assertive , we know that very often the feelings behind their inability to be assertive need to be addressed first of all and then the skills that they may want to acquire will fit in with erm a different quality erm of where it 's emanating from in them as a person . |
| 4 | In pursuit of this goal , the grammarian will concentrate on a particular body of data and attempt to produce an exhaustive but economical set of rules which will account for all and only the acceptable sentences in his data . |
| 5 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 6 | This awareness was a growing one , not a sudden flash of illumination , not a conversion at all but rather a slow , painful , at times embarrassing progress towards competence in communicating with deaf people . |
| 7 | In some cases this may even mean not using a page makeup package at all but rather a high-powered word processor like Lotus Manuscript , Word or WordPerfect 5.0 . |
| 8 | Indeed , we suspect that a rule which was never broken would not be a rule in our sense at all but rather an inevitability with the logical status of a law . |
| 9 | Inch loss from others varied according to their size but those with a 34–36 inch bust measurement either lost nothing at all or only an inch or an inch and a half . |
| 10 | How far is it possible to speak of a partnership at all if only a restricted set of activities is undertaken ? |
| 11 | Often it is not possible to provide any separate accommodation at all and even the bedroom may have to be shared . |
| 12 | Ligulf of Bamburgh , the Earl 's brother-in-law , whom no one crossed at all and even the Earl did n't swear at . |
| 13 | The islands were not visible at all and only the lower slopes of Vesuvius could be seen . |
| 14 | Ideally speaking , one of the electrodes should be at a site where no activity occurs at all and then the amplified signal would represent the total activity at the area of interest ; in practice this state of affairs is difficult to achieve since no site is entirely free from underlying neural activity . |
| 15 | would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment . |
| 16 | As to Alain Lemarchand , she owed him no duty at all and certainly no favours . |