Example sentences of "it [vb -s] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It sleeps all day and most of the night . ’ |
| 2 | It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed . |
| 3 | It represents all households which contain an elderly person . |
| 4 | It involves all aspects of erm the law in relation to firearms , their issue , their use er great emphasis placed on er section three of the criminal law act in respect of the use of reasonable force . |
| 5 | Genius , as it disdains all assistance , so it defies all obstacles . |
| 6 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 7 | It arouses all forms of passion . |
| 8 | It incorporates all cargo activities in relation to airlines , handling agents , customs brokers , freight forwarding agents and express transport operators . |
| 9 | It is important to note that a company must itself maintain a register of charges which is more extensive than that maintained by the Registrar of Companies ( since it covers all charges irrespective of type ) but failure to register a charge in it does not invalidate the charge . |
| 10 | These days , despite its name , it covers all forms of optical media providing a valuable ( if US-biased ) amalgam of news and comment . |
| 11 | It covers all persons ( whether or not acting in concert ) who directly or indirectly own or deal in the shares of an offeror company or the target company in an offer and who have ( in addition to their nominal interests as shareholders ) an interest or potential interest , whether commercial , financial or personal , in the outcome of the offer . |
| 12 | Although it covers all knowledge , it has been designed to apply specifically to collections in school libraries . |
| 13 | It has all party support and has reached Report Stage . |
| 14 | It has all sorts of graphics engines built in , including one for line drawing and a fast bit-blitter for quick block moves and 2Mb of video RAM . |
| 15 | It has all kinds of ghosts from the past . |
| 16 | I think it 's a perfect example of rumour feeding on rumour , that once something gets into the market place it causes all sorts of entrepreneurial people out there to think there 's an opportunity they ought not to miss . |
| 17 | The differences between quotation and paraphrase can be seen in the following contrasting examples : Quotation " One of the most striking things about detective fiction " , Patricia Craig argues in her critical introduction to English detective stories , " is the ease with which it accommodates all kinds of topical ideologies . " |
| 18 | ‘ This trio only has long-term chances of survival if it uses all chances to work together to get the best results , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It uses all media , and most media depend on it financially . |
| 20 | It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data , and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments . |
| 21 | However , it allows all users to access each others modules , since everyone is part of the one family . |
| 22 | The word ‘ sweet ’ is used so often throughout the scene that it loses all worth , in the same way that a Chaucerian epithet such as ‘ fresshe ’ comes to mean almost the opposite when continually applied to January 's wife May in The Merchant 's Tale . |
| 23 | It handles all products right through the whole chain from hydrogen cyanide to ‘ Perspex ’ and ‘ Diakon ’ plastics and newer added-value materials such as ‘ Asterite ’ and ‘ Avron ’ . |
| 24 | sort of bits , I 've got a bit here and it says all landlords may be liquidated immediately you know |
| 25 | It fills all space , penetrating and permeating everything . |
| 26 | Structure , which can also be opposed to material , is a broader concept than both form , in its traditional sense , and device ; it embraces all aspects of a literary text , from sound to subject matter , and it includes both those which are defamiliarized and those which are not . |
| 27 | UEFA ARE ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European super league , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
| 28 | UEFA are ready to listen to radical new proposals for a European Super League , but only if it benefits all clubs and not just the rich elite . |
| 29 | Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God . |
| 30 | ‘ And it raises all sorts of questions about the car crash , does n't it ? ’ |