Example sentences of "[prep] all that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The movement remains remarkably strong : despite all that the government and economic collapse have done , TUC membership is still above the ten million mark , and many unions enjoy the loyalty and energetic commitment of tens of thousands of active members .
2 First , the pope asserted that it was upon evidence presented by Offa that Hadrian had based his judgement , Offa testifying that it was the unanimous wish of all that a pallium be sent to the bishop of Lichfield .
3 So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times .
4 The Hybrid Tea ( abbreviated to H.T. ) is the type most gardeners regard as the epitome of all that a rose can and should be .
5 First of all that the Plan Two policy there is for vehicles over five years , sixty thousand miles .
6 Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ .
7 The transmitted message contains details of all that the satellite has to do in the next period , in particular to implement the survey .
8 No sir I I do accept first of all that the capacity of the city should remain at thirty three .
9 The recent nomination of a woman as Assistant Bishop of Massachusetts , and the remarks of one diocesan bishop that ‘ the ordination of women to the priesthood must be achieved at practically any cost ’ will cause great despair and lead to grave questioning of all that the Church of England has stood for .
10 We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people .
11 Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other .
12 If this form of ‘ transition ’ becomes simply a retrograde return to passivity , it can be seen as a complete negation of all that the college course sought to encourage :
13 An inevitable by-product of all that the executive branch as a whole does is a vast amount of information , which assemblies need if they are to carry out their roles of law ratification and oversight of the bureaucracy .
14 First of all that the input can be grey scale of course instead of binary .
15 In his sermons the Chaplain of Cadets had only hinted at the existence of terrible ultimate anti-Gods which stalked the warp , seeking to spill through into the cosmos to corrupt precious reality — the antithesis of all that the Emperor stood for ; forces which Marines should pray that they never encountered .
16 With the end of the centenary year , one hopes the flood may reduce to a trickle , About all that the present two books have in common are their catchpenny titles .
17 Reserve police in the RUC wear the same uniform , for all that an outsider can distinguish , and as a consequence face the same security risks , but most are marginalized by the restricted range of duties they perform and the short-term status of their contract .
18 But a direct consequence of this was the appearance of a mother-goddess whose fecund body and ample breasts promised a phantasy-gratification for all that the delayed-return subsistence systems denied .
19 Is my right hon. Friend aware that the measures introduced yesterday by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor , the harmonious industrial relations restored by the Government and the substantial investment from home and overseas mean that manufacturing in the heart of England is deeply grateful for all that the Government have done in the past 13 years ?
20 For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them .
21 Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years .
22 For all that the teacher can do to promote acceptance , it will ultimately be the shared interest and enthusiasm of pupils that help them to form and maintain friendship .
23 Dea Birkett 's detailed biography links Mary Kingsley 's public and private life with great authority , for all that the biographer is very hard on her subject .
24 For all that The Mouse on the Moon ( 1963 ) is a slight film , its satirical swipes at the unprogressive nature of British institutions and the nation 's difficulty in coming to terms with its global insignificance do find their target .
25 Are not politics bound up with all that a woman is most concerned with — housing , food prices , the education of her children , the health of her family ?
26 As a result of them , the pre-pubertal youngster changes comparatively rapidly into the sexual adult , with all that the change implies .
27 Computer books ( and , indeed , a vast number of other books on management ) are bought not by individuals but by companies , who can declare such purchases as legitimate expenses , with all that the term implies tax-wise .
28 He advocated a unified central approach to budgeting and recommended above all that the State Control , the regime 's auditing body , be given access to the accounts of all government agencies .
29 Religious conviction , in that age , and still more religious observance , were seen as naturally conservative ; and the Christian revival of the 1940s was openly regressive , anxious above all that the world might be changing too fast and too far .
30 The examiner is not interested in all that the candidate knows , nor can he give marks for the evidence of this knowledge unless it is directed exactly and specifically to the narrow topic of the question .
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