Example sentences of "all [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , the distinction is not as clear-cut as these simple definitions imply : current items do not all disappear on the initial day of consumption ; and neither do all capital items last for generations . |
| 2 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
| 3 | Did n't they all know about the terrible appearance of the Conablaiche last time , and how it had prowled the country , snatching sleeping children from their beds and tearing out their hearts for its Dark Master . |
| 4 | Franco 's own forces were similarly , if less virulently , shot through with internal rivalries and disagreements ; but if confronted with a choice between the status quo and the risk of " the reds " returning , they would all opt for the former . |
| 5 | With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions . |
| 6 | Projects , dissertations , essays , and tutorial and practical work may all contribute to the final assessment . |
| 7 | If this was so , then ‘ Yahweh ’ , ‘ God the Father ’ and ‘ Allah ’ would all refer to the same God , in the way that ‘ The President ’ , ‘ George Bush ’ and ‘ Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ’ all refer to the same person . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the sources of information do not all appear at the same time . |
| 9 | Elements which can all appear at the same position within a document are regarded as forming a model class : for example , the class phrase includes all elements which can appear within paragraphs but not spanning them , while the class chunk includes all elements which can not appear within paragraphs ( such as paragraphs , for example ) . |
| 10 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 11 | We do n't all work in the same way to spread the good News . |
| 12 | As has been pointed out already , the use of a standard interface means that packages will all work in the same basic way . |
| 13 | The arrangement was that they would all meet at the Federal Express Office in Salt Lake City Airport and send the papers off together to Nature . |
| 14 | And they do not all rotate in the same mode . |
| 15 | The buildings will all look the same , the same companies will sell the same goods in all their shops , the people , apart from trivial physical differences and , possibly , their own languages , will all aspire to the same condition of affluence and to look the same as everybody else . |
| 16 | Nor do they all function in the same way . |
| 17 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 18 | Learners do not all develop at the same speed in the same way . |
| 19 | Laziness , self-aggrandizement or status-seeking will all lead to the inefficient production of public sector output . |
| 20 | The clothes must all go to the forensic laboratory for examination , and as your Superintendent suggested , for analysis of their water content . |
| 21 | ‘ So we set to work on the pictures , enormous ones and little gems which would all go in the modern interior , and made them full of off-white and near-pink . ’ |
| 22 | So selective breeding has played havoc with the natural coat of the cat , producing types of animal that would not all thrive in the wild today . |
| 23 | They do not all live in the same place , but in any one place there may be more than one , and perhaps half a dozen , species . |
| 24 | Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking . |
| 25 | Made possible by the peace accord between the four warring Cambodian factions ratified on 23 October 1991 , the sculptures have all come from the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh . |
| 26 | Their efforts must all pull in the same direction , without friction , without unnecessary duplication of effort ’ . |
| 27 | They will also have to start from the specified starting address on the device , and must all lie within the allocated range . |