Example sentences of "for all [art] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 2 | The cover photograph shows Berger gone native , in dark suit , stiff collar and homburg hat , for all the world like a French shepherd ( a berger , in fact ) on his way to a wedding . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We have proposed a global convention — a sort of good conduct guide on the environment for all the world 's nations on problems like the greenhouse effect . ’ |
| 4 | He decided to live in Dorset and chose this site ( where an earlier house had been ) , because it looked for all the world as though , when the house was built , it could sail straight out to sea . |
| 5 | So wrote Mr Avray Tipping in 1918 , persuading the traveller to take the winding road from Shrivenham ( pronounced ‘ Shrinam ’ by the locals ) and to glimpse down its fine avenue of limes heralding what for all the world could be the Petit Trianon plucked from Versailles and set down here in Berkshire . |
| 6 | When I finally found him he looked for all the world like a clown . |
| 7 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 8 | I may even have said in the spirit of the joke that it had been one hundred and fifty-six whores , for all the world as though it was of an obsessive importance for the actual number to be known with absolute accuracy ! |
| 9 | Even the bureaucrats involved took to playing games and devising ruses , for all the world like secret agents themselves . |
| 10 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 11 | Mr Colin Sheaf , Christie 's Chinese porcelain expert and auctioneer , mounted his rostrum against a vast reredos of 1018 blue-and-white bowls and vases — for all the world like a Harrods sale in 1690 , had Harrods then been invented — and presided over mayhem from Lot 1 . |
| 12 | It also shows , however , that sluices judiciously placed , and a barrier across the lake to keep one area free of encroachment from the sea , could allow birds and agriculture to flourish in concert ; an ideal indeed , for all the world . |
| 13 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 14 | Plants — the principal source of medicinal drugs for all the world 's civilisations & cultures … |
| 15 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 16 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 17 | It looked , for all the world , as if she really did n't give a damn . |
| 18 | This blocky layer is carried along on top of the moving flow , looking for all the world like rocks on a conveyor belt in a quarry . |
| 19 | ‘ They are never children , ’ he answered , ‘ that let themselves be photographed like that for all the world to see . ’ |
| 20 | A thing for all the world to wonder at ’ . |
| 21 | As previously stated , forward rates are quoted as an adjustment to the spot rate for all the world 's principal currencies by bank dealers operating in the foreign exchange market . |
| 22 | For all the world , Rab thought , through all his agony , like an elephant in the zoo . |
| 23 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 24 | The distinctive leaves of Begonia grandis evansiana , looking for all the world like an escaped house plant , but hardy enough to grow outside , are also grown in abundance . |
| 25 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |
| 26 | A few days later a 69 Squadron Maryland approached the airfield , looking for all the world like a Ju88 . |
| 27 | For all the world to see , |
| 28 | For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front . |
| 29 | I prefer it that way , too , ’ says Palin , for all the world as though it were his idea . |
| 30 | You are light for all the world . |