Example sentences of "[to-vb] everything [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why you have someone with a clapperboard at the start of each take : to make it possible to find everything in the whole length of film . |
| 2 | He is being wooed by three counter-arguments : first , that when it comes to big , company-wide computer systems , customers still prefer to buy everything from a single , proven supplier ; second , that mainframes will remain at the heart of many of tomorrow 's systems , in which a network of PCs will be served by a central processor ; and third , that IBM is moving away from being hardware-dominated to become , increasingly , a one-stop-shop for computer consultancy and services . |
| 3 | Even in normal society it is boring and , after a while , meaningless to trace everything to a common source , especially when the detail is elaborate . |
| 4 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 5 | On its roof there were four sledges — three ordinary ones for the three of us , and a monster for Odd-Knut , built , it seemed to us , to carry everything including the proverbial . |
| 6 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 7 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 8 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 9 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 10 | Don ? t expect to understand everything at a first reading . |
| 11 | There is now a ‘ hassles and uplifts ’ scale with which ambitious social psychologists try to quantify everything from the down value of a lost shoe to the up value of a birthday card from an old friend . |
| 12 | Everything in a given society is made to explain its racism , and this racism , in turn , is made to explain everything about a particular ethnic minority within it . |
| 13 | Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails . |
| 14 | No doubt , as the election approaches , the Conservatives will seek to blame everything on the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) — a close friend of the Chancellor , whom I am glad to see in the Chamber . |
| 15 | He was so dangerously persuasive — and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore . |
| 16 | It was hard not to want everything at the vast open-air market . |
| 17 | This can turn into a driver where people then feel they have to achieve everything in the fastest possible time . |