Example sentences of "[adj] all [vb base] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 33 ) , the European Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Decisions concerning Custody of Children ( 1980 ) ( Cm. 191 ) and the Family Law Act 1986 all provide the opportunity for steps to be taken to return abducted children anywhere within the world , including between England and Scotland and England and Northern Ireland , but do not permit such a state of affairs to occur within England and Wales . |
| 2 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 3 | The husband who is or becomes emotionally clumsy or inconsiderate , the wife who is over-demanding or nagging , the partner who is coldly disapproving or coolly unsupportive or the one who is noisily depreciatory all run the risk of becoming the " bad parent " ; the " bad parent " is not loved and the physical side of love will deteriorate . |
| 4 | Sentences 1 , 2 and 3 all contain the meaning ‘ sacks ’ ; the only formal element they have in common is the graphic sequence sacks . |
| 5 | Since average yields on non-irrigated land could not rise much above fivefold the seed , the increase must have been the result of extending the cultivated area by ploughing marginal land : Jovellanos in the eighteenth century , Fermin Caballero in the 1850's , and the Report on the agricultural crisis of 1887 all accuse the farmer of ploughing up more than he could maintain in cultivation . |