Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely it is treacherous to blame the palaces of the rich for all the blood spilt on battlefields ? |
| 2 | Here I come , the great man himself , the master of the house , the wage-earner , the one who makes it possible for all the rest of you to live so well ! |
| 3 | These negative forces are all around us , presently very tangible and running rampant for all the world to see as our planet appears to enter its grand finale . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry for all the nonsense , I 'm appallingly ashamed . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Dana is very sorry for all the trouble she has caused and wants me to forgive her . ’ |
| 6 | Will still laughed at people in his plays , but he also felt sorry for them — sorry for all the world , good and bad , rich and poor , young and old . |
| 7 | I know they are all going to get a great deal out of this experience , I am deeply grateful for all the help that is being given them , they have had such a worrying time , I do not think one of them could have had a holiday this year without help , but I have faith to think it will be a good investment for the WEA . |
| 8 | Scotland has had its full share of the ‘ cake ’ and I would imagine that the National Trust for Scotland is grateful for all the help it has received . |
| 9 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 10 | This is good news indeed and the students and families concerned are most grateful for all the support which helped bring about such a satisfactory outcome . |
| 11 | Conscious that she must make the most of these last weeks , and grateful for all the happiness and love which she had enjoyed in childhood , she was nevertheless eager for the days to pass and for the news to come that João had arrived from Lisbon to collect his bride . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope you 're grateful for all the trouble I 've just gone to , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 14 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 15 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 16 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 17 | He simply observed , rather wearily , that if Gentle 's word was worth so little after all the effort he , Klein , had put into finding work for him , then it was perhaps best that they end their business relationship now . |
| 18 | So I mean I think we 've got to go into this for all the course . |
| 19 | 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well . |
| 20 | Wet through all the time ! |
| 21 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 22 | You are light for all the world . |
| 23 | The failure to conclude the Uruguay Round had injected uncertainty into the international trade system , causing trade disputes to resurface , and had led to the " impression that there is one law for the most powerful members of GATT and quite another for all the rest " . |
| 24 | ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ? |
| 25 | To end your pre-shoot planning session , pick one or two camera positions which will keep you clear of all the coming and going . |
| 26 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 27 | Roughly half of all the CO 2 produced dissolves in the oceans , where some is photosynthesized by plants , is taken up by trees or is taken up within limestone ( calcium carbonate ) . |
| 28 | Half of all the meat eaten in the world is pig . |
| 29 | Britain is a major market for US plywood — about a million cubic metres of the stuff comes across the Atlantic every year , nearly half of all the plywood we import . |
| 30 | Half of all the way round so how many would that be ? |