Example sentences of "[det] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | though , is that for all the skill of the anti-missile scientists , we can not underestimate the inventiveness of the missile makers . |
| 2 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 3 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 4 | He simply observed , rather wearily , that if Gentle 's word was worth so little after all the effort he , Klein , had put into finding work for him , then it was perhaps best that they end their business relationship now . |
| 5 | So I mean I think we 've got to go into this for all the course . |
| 6 | 3 Make up a table like this for all the dialect words in the story : 4 Tell this story , or a story of your own , in your own dialect , or a dialect that you know well . |
| 7 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 8 | The failure to conclude the Uruguay Round had injected uncertainty into the international trade system , causing trade disputes to resurface , and had led to the " impression that there is one law for the most powerful members of GATT and quite another for all the rest " . |
| 9 | ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ? |
| 10 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Half of all the meat eaten in the world is pig . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Half of all the way round so how many would that be ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They will be able to keep half of all the treasure they find ( unrealistically generous , certainly ) but it will all have to be declared . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | In those circumstances , I believe that the military pursued this with all the diligence that they could . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Least of all a woman . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |