Example sentences of "all [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world .
2 It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about .
3 Do signers have a clear idea of the separateness of different sign languages , or do they feel and act as if they are all basically the same thing ?
4 In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ .
5 Cos they 're all generally the same cancer so
6 Perhaps , he concluded , in his letter terminating their correspondence for months to come , it was all just a terrible nightmare which would only be understood later ?
7 You lose it all just a slight detail , leave the door
8 Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game .
9 ‘ It was all just a wee misunderstanding . ’
10 All just a wee misunderstanding , ’ Paddy said .
11 Was it all just a lucky chance ?
12 It was all just a big adventure .
13 And the hens was cooked and all just a royal feed .
14 In contrast the new edition of R. P. Boas 's Primer of Real Functions does it all exactly the wrong way round ( Baire before Binomial ) but redeems itself with its dedication : TO MY EPSILONS .
15 ‘ We have discussed the possibility of doing an album or EP of covers ; the only problem I can see at the moment is that we tend to approach them all exactly the same way — speed them up . ’
16 It can be used to order any set of single-copy probes which are all approximately the same size , such as cosmid and marker probes on YAC filters , YAC probes on cosmid filters or cosmid probes on cosmid filters .
17 Naturally , with a cast of actors who are all approximately the same age , the casting of heavy character parts has to be considered very carefully , and of course not all plays are teeming with characters of similar age .
18 As a rule , snakes have simple teeth , all roughly the same shape , long , pointed and directed backwards when the mouth is closed .
19 The question might be raised whether a surgeon 's callousness is after all even a local violation of ‘ Be aware ’ .
20 mean you 're all quite an observant bunch here
21 My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day .
22 It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow .
23 Above all else the guiding principle is to tease out the meanings inherent in the images ; to ask : " What 's important here ? "
24 Underlying the work is the belief that beyond all else the competitive achievement of a particular company is a product of the energies and competency of a relatively small group of very senior executives .
25 I do not believe that we should cast aside at all lightly the all-party support for these methods .
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