Example sentences of "all [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
| 2 | In all possible worlds you 'd still be you |
| 3 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme , ’ the chairman of parliament , Ruslan Khasbulatov , said on the eve of a debate on Mr Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 5 | For an artisan elite it was skilled labour power sold at a premium , but for most men and almost all working women it was unskilled labour . |
| 6 | Once the state arrogates to itself the power to decide on all economic matters it is but a short step to the physical direction of labour . |
| 7 | Modernists never wrote stories , as that word is commonly understood , and to all public appearances they seldom read them . |
| 8 | That 's what he said to me , cos I said oh it 's all old men you know what I mean , he said it 's not he said like , you go down the West Indian end , he said and it 's really a blinding day out . |
| 9 | They are all old men she has chosen , men in the cloudy twilight of past glories . |
| 10 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 11 | I 've got all different things I do n't like these earphones they hurt my ears . |
| 12 | and you can cut all different shapes you know |
| 13 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 15 | The NCC agrees that in nearly all British freshwaters it is phosphate rather than nitrate which is the limiting factor in controlling eutrophication and that a phosphate directive is required to deal more effectively with it . |
| 16 | On the last occasion he had seen his mother , which was when he came down to Plumford for lunch at Easter , he had thought that to all outward appearances she was exactly the same as she had always been . |
| 17 | To understand how this applies to all 12 keys it is helpful to know the starting form , as each key will continue sequentially up the fretboard from the starting pattern . |
| 18 | But Dickie Arbiter , his spokesman , said : ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously as with all back problems it hurts a good deal . ’ |
| 19 | We have n't affected their order book , but all future orders we 've affected by eight per cent . |
| 20 | Certainly , all of the groups were unhappy with ( b ) as an ending : in all six reconstructions it was placed at least three sentences from the end . |
| 21 | In all six cases it was indicated that sexual intercourse had taken place . |
| 22 | Like all such oppositions it was cliquy , largely conversational , expressing itself in ‘ private grievances , expressive silences , above all in abstention from praise or at the most , timid insinuations ’ . |
| 23 | In all such cases we will not be responsible for any costs involved . |
| 24 | In all such cases you may not be satisfied to receive even large damages for the wrong done ; and what the amount of damages is to be may be very uncertain . |
| 25 | In all such studies it is important to take account of confounding variables . |
| 26 | But like all such moments it came to an end , yet not before she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was not the only one affected . |
| 27 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 28 | As with all similar games it is the strategy you develop that makes the difference . |
| 29 | But in my painting , the mother 's face is not , as it is in all similar images I have seen , pious and accepting . |
| 30 | All moral rules it seems , derive their strength from the original incest taboo and lose their reliability if this taboo is weakened . |