Example sentences of "[vb past] all [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , in the case of the other seven indicator agencies , which did have central recording systems , visits were made by members of the research team who transcribed all of the required information on to prestructured forms . |
| 2 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 3 | However , in general , he was not allowed to go there since his presence excited all of the large apes housed there and interfered with any research that might have been going on . |
| 4 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |
| 5 | Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value . |
| 6 | The grim determination with which Peter the Great restored the army after the disaster at Narva ( 1700 ) , and risked all in the decisive battle against the Swedes at Poltava ( 1709 ) , reflected in large measure his own indomitable , exuberant , ruthless personality . |
| 7 | Maggie quickly brought her attention back to the cross-eyed girl and forgot all about the young man . |
| 8 | On Sunday I put some sprouts on , right and doing summat , I forgot all about the bloody things ! |
| 9 | In her horror , Clarissa forgot all about the head waiter and the brandy . |
| 10 | The model plant , model workers who did n't need a union , jobs for life … but this fairy godmother forgot all about the happy ending . |
| 11 | The news item which covered all of the front page read : |
| 12 | In municipal elections in Lausanne on Oct. 28-29 , 1989 , the extreme right-wing National Action for People and Homeland ( NA ) lost all of the 16 seats on the council which it had won in 1985 [ see p. 34253 ] . |
| 13 | Since the human race was the highest product of evolution , the development of the human embryo exhibited all of the major stages in the ascent of life . |
| 14 | Collections do n't have to be expensive , or acquired all at the same time . |
| 15 | I knew all about the technical hazards , the need to remain seemingly unperturbed when the running order had to be changed at the last second , the importance of acquiring a warm , friendly rapport with the viewer . |
| 16 | For four decades it was supposed that Hicks 's model contained all of the basic ingredients of the General Theory approach to the theory of employment . |
| 17 | Deputies of the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) , who occupied all of the 423 seats in the Assembly , had subjected the government 's draft legislation to delays and major amendments . |
| 18 | so where did all of the other languages come from ? |
| 19 | Many of the High Plains States had low percentages , as did all of the southern States . |
| 20 | And that if Cath did all of the clerical staff and then eventually Monique and Mary once they become in service long enough , oh they probably are already are n't they ? |
| 21 | In the 1987 United Kingdom general election the Alliance with 22.6% of the national vote won 3.4% of the seats ; Labour with 61.8% of the city vote won all of the eleven seats in Glasgow , and the Conservatives with 52.1% of the regional vote won all but one of the 20 seats in East Anglia . |
| 22 | And then a log broke in the hearth , sending sparks cascading , and the shadows leapt , and Grainne remembered all of the old stories , and could almost have believed that the ancient Ireland had awoken at last ; that goblins and satyrs and cloven-hoofed , pointed-eared creatures were prancing in the room with them . |
| 23 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 24 | They grew big and strong and healthy , for he saw to it that they had all of the best , particularly in winter , and nothing to fear — except the running knot in the hedge-gap and the wood-path . |
| 25 | Particularly since the discipline of administering State power in peculiarly obdurate circumstances inclined all in the reverse direction , and obliged them to limit their preoccupations to ensuring the survival of the State and its domains . |
| 26 | From that first manifestation of life the evolutionary processes continued all through the countless ages of this Second Period , that is , the period from the beginnings of life to the dawn of civilisation , and life developed by virtue of the laws of survival as disclosed by the Darwinian school . |