Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time Was Away displays Minton 's striking ability to blend all the parts into a decorative whole . |
| 2 | Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools . |
| 3 | It is interesting that Hoccleve 's old Beggar embodies all that Hoccleve most fears : poverty , old age and helplessness in the face of them . |
| 4 | But Napoleon III 's Second Empire changed all this , decisively and enthusiastically embracing railway-building so that by 1870 11,000 miles had been built by a partnership between the State and the six great companies that emerged from the initial burst of railway fever . |
| 5 | It would be possible to have a society in which it was everyone 's personal rule to refuse all help to the needy , but as someone who might be needy myself I can not truly will that all should turn their back upon me in such a situation . |
| 6 | Giorgio Benvenuto , the leader of Mr Craxi 's Socialist Party , has threatened to resign unless his party 's national executive suspends all members under investigation for corruption . |
| 7 | At the same time , however , the politician 's inevitable inability to satisfy all of his friends demanded great management skills to mollify the disappointed . |
| 8 | From this it seems that Nicholson 's dazzling display outclassed all others in the Chemical Section — including the rather pedestrian exhibit of Perkin & Sons . |
| 9 | Now budget costs will be the only control on Langbaurgh Council 's four-year plan to provide all its 110,000 users with them . |
| 10 | Wren 's grief-stricken mother gives all her daughter 's possessions to Luna . |
| 11 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 12 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 13 | One glance at the Doctor 's dejected expression answered all the questions . |
| 14 | 5.7.1 At the Tenant 's own expense to execute all works and provide and maintain all arrangements upon or in respect of the Premises or the use to which the Premises are being put that are required in order to comply with the requirements of any statute ( already or in the future to be passed ) or any government department , local authority other public or competent authority or court of competent jurisdiction regardless of whether such requirements are imposed on the lessor the lessee or the occupier |
| 15 | Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power . |
| 16 | RNP8> Adopted without a vote , Part A of Resolution 44/195 on the UN 's financial crisis urged all members states to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time , and requested those members in arrears to make every effort to pay outstanding contributions . |
| 17 | When Carrie looked at Melody 's dripping hair hanging all about her face and the sodden dress clinging to her body , she realised Seb was telling the truth and her face lost its tightness . |
| 18 | Britain 's last hangman tells all . |
| 19 | Britain 's last hangman tells all . |