Example sentences of "[det] of all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 2 | Roughly half of all the CO 2 produced dissolves in the oceans , where some is photosynthesized by plants , is taken up by trees or is taken up within limestone ( calcium carbonate ) . |
| 3 | Half of all the meat eaten in the world is pig . |
| 4 | Britain is a major market for US plywood — about a million cubic metres of the stuff comes across the Atlantic every year , nearly half of all the plywood we import . |
| 5 | Half of all the way round so how many would that be ? |
| 6 | Like the bricks in such a house , the protein molecules of the body are replaced ( ‘ turned over ’ ) so that , on average , half of all the protein molecules are changed every two weeks . |
| 7 | They will be able to keep half of all the treasure they find ( unrealistically generous , certainly ) but it will all have to be declared . |
| 8 | Mr Geoffrey Hillcoat , Durham county council group traffic manager for road safety , told Darlington Cycling Forum on Monday that serious accidents in the town accounted for almost half of all the cycle injuries in the county last year . |
| 9 | In a report on biodiversity , entitled Bringing Rio Home : Biodiversity in our Food and Farming , SAFE shows that in 1992 three varieties accounted for more than half of all the seed sown of winter wheat , spring wheat , barley , oats , rye , sugar beet and rapeseed ; the highest proportions were for spring wheat ( 86 per cent ) and oats ( 77 per cent ) . |
| 10 | In the mid-eighteenth century , Germany was not — and never had been — a notable centre of classical studies , and least of all a centre of Greek studies . |
| 11 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 12 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 13 | Least of all a woman . |
| 14 | Few would argue to this day , though , least of all the legion of pianists who have since played ( including myself ) and recorded this masterpiece , that Horowitz 's highly musical and white-hot interpretation remains an unchallenged tour de force . |
| 15 | It is that industry itself has come to hold a position of exclusive predominance among human interests , which no single interest , and least of all the provision of the material means of existence , is fit to occupy . |
| 16 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 17 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 18 | No-one pretends that preventing further tragedies will be an easy matter , least of all the mountain rescue teams whose job it frequently is to haul the body-bags from the hills . |
| 19 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 20 | The NSA is now so large , so complex , and so secret that no one in America , least of all the president or Congress , has any idea what it is doing or how sensibly the taxpayers ' money is being spent . |
| 21 | Least of all the chemist . ’ |
| 22 | I would not have entrusted , to use Jennie Lee 's pungent phrase , the conduct of a chip shop to him , least of all the nation 's international affairs , but I could not say with any firm conviction that they have necessarily been handled better by his successors of either party . |
| 23 | He found that of all the nutrient criteria , the two that were best able to predict reproductive success were protein intake and energy intake . |
| 24 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 25 | The problems of converting industries designed for peacetime production to the manufacturing of military equipment were immense , but by 1944 US war production was double that of all the Axis powers combined . |
| 26 | We were agreed that of all the billeting areas , Bedford would probably be our choice . |
| 27 | That the population of the parish and village of Bowmore amounts to about three thousand souls ; and that of all the population not more than three hundred regularly attend church . |
| 28 | His theatrical successes exceeded those of all the rest of the cast added together ( and the money Paul Lexington had agreed with his agent quite possibly exceeded their total too ) . |
| 29 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 30 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |