Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] every [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke had to appear confident of victory or else every waverer in his army would run to be with the Emperor and the winning side . |
| 2 | Knowing that nearly every parish in the country had their own guild or fraternity at one time , it is all the more frustrating to learn that little exists from the once vast stock of pre-Reformation funerary artefacts . |
| 3 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 4 | Although nearly every person in the country wears jeans , I think there are quite a few who should n't ! ’ |
| 5 | There is no doubt that almost every officer in the RUC , a largely Protestant force , would be opposed to the Anglo-Irish accord . |
| 6 | Moreover , the policing of the picket line was organised and controlled by local police officers according to a ‘ hearts and minds ’ philosophy : the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire sensibly recognised that almost every family in Sheffield had connections with the steelworkers and was keen to ensure that the police did not alienate themselves from the wider community . |
| 7 | But in case we should be so facile as to see this as a Grimes leitmotif in the Wagnerian sense explicitly rejected by Britten , we must notice the somewhat complex history of the theme after its first full appearance , as well as the fact that almost every theme in the opera ( apart from the non-recurring tunes of some , but not all , of the individual songs ) could be called a " Grimes " leitmotif , which would leave us where we began . |
| 8 | He had become Denmark 's most popular footballer , outstripping the likes of Michael Laudrup , and suddenly every boy in Copenhagen wants to play in goal . |
| 9 | No one knows where HIV started , but we do know that it is spreading fast and nearly every country in the world has people with HIV or AIDS . |
| 10 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 11 | In the nineteenth century the Friesian types ( call them what you will ) were also exported to Japan , Africa , the Argentine , Russia and virtually every country in Europe . |
| 12 | But very many other units of the British Army have provided individuals or sub-units , and virtually every cap-badge in the Army may be encountered in the operational area . |
| 13 | Under the British system virtually every seat in Wallonie would have returned Socialists and virtually every seat in Flanders would have returned Christian Democrats . |
| 14 | And almost every object in the room seemed to be spattered with multicoloured splashes of paint ; while the windows were covered with grime and festooned with cob-webs . |
| 15 | Further privileges lay in store for W. C. T. as a member of the Weavers ' Company — though nearly every entry in his name subsequently is confused by his double Christian names : even the document granting him his Freedom of the City had to insert ‘ William ’ in front of ‘ Charles ’ with a caret mark , and as far as the Weavers were concerned , he was really ‘ Charles William ’ . |
| 16 | They turned into Candlewick , now thronged with carts , pack horses and wagons as virtually every tradesman in the city seized the opportunity afforded by the break in the weather . |
| 17 | There you could meet the likes of Orson Welles , Norman Mailer , Lillian Hellman , Virgil Thomson , Martha Graham , Ethel Merman , and Anita Loos — as well as almost every star in American showbusiness . |