Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That duration testifies to the substantial fact that for all the alarm the crisis produced , the British financial system had reached a level of sophistication and general confidence which enabled it to live through a moment which in earlier times would have seemed the harbinger of doom . |
| 2 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 3 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 4 | He had opted for the cynical , guarded approach , and now he could see that for all the safety it had brought him — here he was , in his second year , still solvent , heart intact , unmugged and even succeeding in his studies , despite all his mother 's fears — every defence had its price , and he had paid in a separating distance , incomprehension . |
| 5 | They lie ahead , and since they can travel at twice our pace , we may be sure that for all the length of our march we shall be subject to ambush . |
| 6 | What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality , but we can not seem to grasp it . |
| 7 | Hooper said that after all the speculation it would be ‘ disappointing , but not the end of the world ’ if he were left out against Spartak . |
| 8 | Hooper said that after all the speculation it would be ‘ disappointing , but not the end of the world ’ if he were left out against Spartak . |
| 9 | But we do say that its object [ has ] been gained , and that after all the stir and excitement , the inconvenience … we are back where we wished to be , and with the miners ' case under negotiation . |
| 10 | Is it not the case that after all the hype and hopes that were insinuated in the debate , the Scottish Office is toeing the Ministry of Defence line ? |
| 11 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 12 | The poet comes to the conclusion that despite all the life which is slowly drifting away there is one thing which is undying , and that is her ‘ love ’ for him . |
| 13 | Heather played the pacifist role , pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite . |
| 14 | It is always possible that despite all the behaviour there are actually no sensations going on there at all , or at least different ones from those we imagine . |
| 15 | Looking back over our century one can not help feeling that despite all the research , the new drugs and the improved surgical techniques , to say nothing of the introduction of health services in many western countries , the health of our societies has declined rather than improved . |
| 16 | ‘ The most striking thing is that despite all the talk there is still not much clothing around yet . |
| 17 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 18 | Then , for the following one we bought the first meals on wheels van so that with all the money that we 've collected for Harlow day we bought something out of the money . |
| 19 | You could say that with all the service Deane gets from the midfield he should have scored more than two ( as I say Lee 's got 4 & he gets hardly any service ! ) . |
| 20 | It assumes that from all the infinity of perceptual experiences undergone by an observer , the set of perceptual experiences arising from the viewing of red things is somehow available for inspection . |
| 21 | While wanting to dismiss the stereotyping and silly superstition , the snag remains that within all the ballyhoo there are elements of truth . |
| 22 | On the only aged willow that in all the field remains . |
| 23 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 24 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the logical part of his mind acknowledged that in all the world he could hardly have chosen anyone more hopelessly wrong for him . |
| 26 | If the biochemical change is the consequence simply of the experience of tasting the bead , then the level of fucose incorporation in E should be the same as that in D and F , and higher than in all the water groups A — C. If , however , the increased incorporation is associated with memory , then E should be equivalent to B and lower than either D or F. We needed , of course , to repeat the experiment with enough birds — eventually , a dozen in each group — to be sure of the results — but when we analysed the data , they were unequivocal , and I ca n't resist showing them in Figure 10.8 . |
| 27 | There is more water in the ground than in all the world 's rivers and lakes combined . |
| 28 | Up to 10 times more taxpayers ' money was being invested in a single CTC than in all the county schools in the surrounding area , he said . |
| 29 | Paradoxically , more could have been achieved for crofting in Lewis , on a permanent basis , by a regional policy for fisheries than by all the money being spent on agriculture through the IDP . |
| 30 | It 's real great to watch them cos they blink on and off all the time . |