Example sentences of "all [verb] by the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And sometimes it 's all done by the same company . |
| 2 | But people will probably only all co-operate when they are all threatened by the same external |
| 3 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 4 | In other words , the most difficult tasks found within any given layer are all characterized by the same type or category of complexity , just as water remains in the same liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius , even though it ranges from very cold to very hot . |
| 5 | I think we have to remember that that that these Anthems are all played by the same military band , and therefore they 're played in a western style . |
| 6 | The various departments ’ relations with Parliament , with outside bodies and professions are all governed by the same consideration that the minister is in charge and that he can be attacked ( in or out of Parliament ) for anything that happens or fails to happen in his department . |
| 7 | The letter detector for any letter ( let us say R ) is used to identify that letter regardless of its precise visual form : for example , uppercase , lowercase and handwritten forms of the letter R are all identified by the same letter detector . |
| 8 | They were all playing by the same rules . |
| 9 | To return to Dr Johnson , this book perfectly illustrates his sonorous maxim : ‘ We are all prompted by the same motives , all deceived by the same fallacies , all animated by hope , obstructed by danger , entangled by desire and seduced by pleasure ’ . |