Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ch. 784 it was held that a promise to transfer shares in a company on which no deposit or other sum had been paid was made for consideration when the transferee agreed to do all acts necessary to relieve the transferor of liability in respect of the shares . |
| 2 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The enemy had destroyed all flesh , but had not discovered the skeleton of brick and its bedrock of soil . |
| 5 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The election campaign included forcing all newspaper sales off the streets , widespread use of violence and thuggery , arson attacks on offices and homes , the takeover of the local radio station by the NSDAP and exchanges of gunfire on the streets . |
| 8 | The committee had investigated all aspects of the capital 's administration and its relationship with the central government . |
| 9 | eighteen months on the model circuit had eliminated all trace of her former Somerset accent . |
| 10 | ETA threatened to attack all officials of the Justice and Interior Ministries as " military targets " . |
| 11 | Finally , war served to bring all members of a society , soldier and civilian , under the umbrella of national consciousness . |
| 12 | In a state where autocracy sought to monopolise all forms of political life no political party could really exist . |
| 13 | The rest of them felt his wife tried to sever all connections . |
| 14 | A patient period of fund-raising ensued using all sorts of ideas to bring money in to enable such an ambitious project to commence . |
| 15 | The party leadership wanted to ban all strikes because it is terrified of an upsurge in Russian and Ukrainian working-class militancy which , it correctly realises , could be more dangerous to the regime than all the ethnic disturbances of the last few years combined . |
| 16 | In an attempt to reduce the country 's crippling budget deficit the plenum agreed to abolish all subsidies to state enterprises . |
| 17 | ON MONDAY the Politburo decided to ban all strikes for the next 15 months . |
| 18 | Previous tests by the council had found that mineral seepage from the mine had killed all fish life in the Kilmastulla river and damaged wildlife in the immediate area . |
| 19 | It had been anticipated that several of the governors appointed by Congress ( I ) would be replaced by the new government , but rather than make selective changes of those appointees of the former regime the government decided to ask all governors to resign with the intention of reinstating some of them later . |
| 20 | In another development , former Tory chairman Lord Parkinson told BBC1 's Panorama last night that the ‘ Government had lost all control ’ . |
| 21 | A shipload of food and medical aid from Italy reached Albania on March 19 , one day after the Albanian government had placed all food distribution in the country under police control in an attempt to counteract speculation . |
| 22 | Iraqi Prime Minister Sa'adoun Hammadi had said on July 15 that the government had disclosed all information about its nuclear facilities . |
| 23 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 24 | In truth , he was recalling how , in a matter of seconds , his uncle had severed all ties of kinship , loyalty and affection . |
| 25 | This suggests that if the Government wanted to equip all schools with a CD-ROM workstation , it would need to spend over £300 million — an unlikely prospect at anytime but more especially in the ‘ value for money ’ 1990s . |
| 26 | When I explained that my husband had been a member of the British armed forces and was in uniform , the official seemed to lose all interest , which I thought strange , as there had been French and Belgian equivalents of the S.A.S. in 1944 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After the emperor had received all sorts of oaths from Lothar , he let him return to Italy . " |
| 30 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |