Example sentences of "[to-vb] all [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 2 | It has nevertheless given rise to such widespread misunderstanding in subsequent interpretations of his model that Keynes would have done better to exclude all discussion of money wage rigidity from the main body of the General Theory . |
| 3 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 4 | In a strong statement issued from RUC headquarters , he added : ‘ The proof of our impartiality and professionalism lies in the facts : the arrests which have been made , the charges which have been preferred , and in our absolute determination to counter all terrorism without fear or favour . ’ |
| 5 | If he had to wait all day for Master to come home , that was all right . |
| 6 | I do n't want him to lose all sense of proportion ; we must make a five . |
| 7 | To submit to unemployment or slums or want , to let children go hungry or sick and old unattended , for fear of increasing the internal national debt , is to lose all sense of proportion . ’ |
| 8 | Now while it is plausible to argue that consumption expenditure will partly depend upon the real value of private sector net worth , to concentrate all attention on a tiny fraction of this magnitude is to lose all sense of proportion . |
| 9 | Certainly , it is common to lose all track of time in labour ; the intensity of the last stages seem to take place in another dimension . |
| 10 | He raised his arm to see its motion in the flesh of his thumb , and clamped his other hand around the base of the digit in the hope of stopping its further advance , gasping as though doused with ice-water. the pain was out of all proportion to the mite 's size , but he held both thumb and sobs hard , determined not to lose all dignity in front of his executioners . |
| 11 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
| 12 | Davidoff noted that the Victorian upper and middle classes were obsessed with a desire to reject all contact with dirt before the emergence of germ theory and medical knowledge of bacteria.0 There was an ambiguity , however , as nineteenth century furniture harboured dust . |
| 13 | A more refined version of the laissez-faire approach outlined above , and one which seems to command the attention of some economists and policy makers , is premised on the idea that it is unhelpful to consider all conflict of interest situations in the same way . |
| 14 | One reservation was that the proposed amendment to grant regulations in Recommendation 10 would be such as to omit all reference to Tutorial Classes . |
| 15 | It is , however absolutely essential to prohibit all growth of grass and weeds for a metre round each tree in the first few years and while this is fairly simple to achieve by spraying with something such as glyphsate or by using a weed suppressing mat , there is still a substantial area to cut . |
| 16 | We used to break all kind of speed limits getting out of the door |
| 17 | Yielding to the phantom 's temptation to remove all power of memory from him , Redlaw finds that he has also lost all compassion and humanity , and infects all those with whom he comes into contact with a like insensibility . |
| 18 | But Mr Docherty said the dilemma would soon end because the council plans to ban all parking on East Row and Horsemarket . |
| 19 | The Commission announced in March 1991 a proposal to ban all advertising of tobacco products throughout the EC from 1993 . |
| 20 | EFFORTS TO reach a compromise over a move to ban all trade in ivory were under way last night as delegates gathered for the conference of the world 's wildlife monitoring organisation . |
| 21 | LOBBYING over a proposal to ban all trade in ivory divided the conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) when it opened yesterday . |
| 22 | The convention meeting has been bitterly divided over proposals to ban all trade in ivory because of decline in elephant numbers from more than 1.2 million to 600,000 in the last decade . |