Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the advice , the British runner tried to make all the running . |
| 2 | The Iraqi coup seemed to confirm all the Foreign Office 's worst fears about Nasser becoming the Hitler of the Middle East . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to withdraw all Government funding for that organisation until it sends a clear message to young people about drugs — ’ No , no , and no ’ ? |
| 4 | There is no one social service designed to meet all the needs of old people . |
| 5 | They say it would allow them to provide the extra accomodation needed to house all their 300 undergraduates and are prepared to spend £5million buying and converting the building . |
| 6 | Never mind the narrow life that he had been born into ; his tiny presence seemed to make all the suffering and pain his birth had caused worthwhile . |
| 7 | Nigel 's sympathetic male editor agreed to ask all the good-looking women writers he could think of . |
| 8 | When the recent IWC annual meeting voted to ban all commercial whaling ( 25 for , 7 against ) the Japanese delegation and press predictably condemned the decision . |
| 9 | 2*/3* HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS — The Policyholder must select an overall sum insured to cover all contents , ie Household Goods , Clothing & Linen , Valuables & Portable Possessions , etc . |
| 10 | 1* BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS — The Policyholder must select an overall sum insured to cover all contents , ie Household Goods , Clothing & Linen , Valuables & Portable Possessions , etc . |
| 11 | But the surrounding drain designed to carry all the toxic effluent away in the foul sewer system had become blocked . |
| 12 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 13 | The National Federation had to consider all the points when determining the amounts of the new subscription to having raise various figures finally agreed on the amount of nine pounds . |
| 14 | Although careful control is required , the ideal system seeks to have all staff working at the peak of their knowledge and ability . |
| 15 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 16 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 17 | The poor dog seemed to know all about it , for in fear and trembling he waited behind his master , hanging his tail most ignobly . |
| 18 | It is of importance in its own right , since affirmative assessment aims to include all significant experience , and unconscious pain is surely significant . |
| 19 | Farming ( con ) Farmers in Austrian Tyrol have to cultivate all available land . |
| 20 | The second commitment from the trust states that it will ’ Complete the agreed building works to bring all Maternity and Gynaecology services together on the same site as Intensive Care for newborn babies and the Special Care Baby Unit at Basildon Hospital . ’ |
| 21 | Once in the war , the image of Hitler as supreme war leader and military strategist came to dominate all other component parts of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 22 | The leaders who went out to any area of European expansion had to make all their own decisions because it would take months , if not years , for their sovereign to reply to any request for instructions . |
| 23 | The Palestinian side agreed to withdraw all of its men to the camps and to hand over all heavy and medium-calibre weapons . |
| 24 | Supplies of Soviet arms were to cease from Jan. 1 , 1992 , and the Soviet side agreed to withdraw all of its military advisers . |
| 25 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |
| 26 | This is not to state that the middle class wants to exclude all the working class from the village . |
| 27 | Which is it — massive increases in normal basic income tax , or does the Labour party intend to reject all the spending plans with which it has conned the electorate by saying that it will engage in them ? |