Example sentences of "all [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ridiculous for her to come and bring all that on a train when . |
| 2 | VAT on bus fares could destroy all that at a stroke . |
| 3 | At least I shall miss all that for a couple of hours or so . |
| 4 | ‘ I am sufficiently stupid to have put up with all that for a time , but I will not be cuckolded by a duck . |
| 5 | They can provide all that for a fee why ca n't they provide it as a compulsory necessary part er of the service , it would n't be more expensive the minister claimed , if you do a proper audit it ca n't be more expensive . |
| 6 | Saint-Jean 's history is above all that of a pilgrim halt , a celebrated resting-place along the great medieval pilgrim route to the shrine of St James in Compostela , in the far north-west corner of Spain . |
| 7 | It 's it 's quite unbelievable , I mean you sit here and people go away and say , I ca n't believe that Jenny 's just got all that from a page of writing . |
| 8 | But — oh , Ellie , there was such a to-do last time , Phena carrying on as though she were the only person in the world who had been lied to , and I know it was hard for her , and Feargal would have given her all this without a blink , but she wanted to play the martyr , and now makes him pay for it in oh , so many little ways . ’ |
| 9 | Was n't he supposed to be doing all this as a favour to her father ? |
| 10 | Do you look at all this as a pain , or a possibility erm ? |
| 11 | You must not see all this as a Machiavellian plot . |
| 12 | if you 're gon na make all this into a dance floor and all the rest of it what 's the be a er er er benefit of having a stage ? |
| 13 | She took a drink of her wine , and then , disconcertingly , asked , ‘ What 's all this about a boyfriend ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What was all this about a house ? ’ asked Tessa . |
| 15 | It 's ridiculous telling all this to a philosopher . |
| 16 | And how 's all this for a tangent ? |
| 17 | The consequence of all this for a study of comparative industrial relations is that international differences can not be understood solely in terms of cross-sectional analysis at any one point in time . |
| 18 | And all this at a time when they are undergoing dramatic changes both physically and emotionally — changes which they often find very difficult to deal with . |
| 19 | You should n't have to put up with all this at a time of such sadness . |
| 20 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
| 21 | It was hoped to accomplish all this within a week . |
| 22 | Suffice it to say here that unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies rose substantially during this period ; the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by general pessimism about future economic prospects in individual countries and in the world in general ; and all this after a period of unprecedented growth in public expenditure on education and health in all advanced industrial countries . |
| 23 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 24 | The immediate crisis passed , but during the next six years the monarchy 's problems if anything intensified , with military humiliation in Morocco and social unrest raging in the emerging anarchist strongholds of urban Catalonia and rural Andalusia : all this against a background of chronic governmental instability . |
| 25 | And all this in a conflict fought halfheartedly by many Norfolk farmers who had only an eye for renewed state intervention . |
| 26 | All this in a choice of four languages , English , French , German and Spanish , so will teach your child the basic understanding of foreign languages which ca n't be a bad thing , as every day , we grow closer to our European neighbours . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , you could n't put all this in a report , could you ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Even the recent drop begs the question if they can do all this in a month or two , why could n't they have done it before . ’ |
| 29 | All this in a package which gives the shoe a radical look which is certain to find favour on the street . |
| 30 | Our interest is not simply in any one department of social life but rather in all these in a community , and especially in their mutual interdependence as parts of a whole . |