Example sentences of "all [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 2 | They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 4 | ‘ They are all blonde and are all about the same size and although none of them are identical you would know they are from the same family . |
| 5 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
| 6 | Er no they 're all about the same depth are n't they ? |
| 7 | They 're all about the same , there 's hardly any difference in them . |
| 8 | Mr Waigel is a Bavarian born and bred who has little love for Bonn but none at all for the former Prussian capital . |
| 9 | ‘ Before you say it 's a forgery , ’ he went on , ‘ let me assure you that we are all after the same thing . |
| 10 | all of the all of the |
| 11 | The political role of the coin was manifested in the way that the widespread use of coinage enabled a regime or state to impose its authority in all of the many monetary transactions which take place in any society . |
| 12 | This would not imply that all of the many thousands of formulaic expressions would be expressly taught . |
| 13 | But with all of the many options , there are still a number of craters and unexploded mines that need to be avoided , whether restructuring or , instead , a lender is to take control with a view to minimising loss . |
| 14 | Things to look out for are that all of the many Airworthiness Directives have been complied with . |
| 15 | At present our knowledge is too inadequate to allow us to quantify all of the many variables involved in cost-benefit analyses of pollution effects and pollution control . |
| 16 | Sir Bryan rejects all of the many arguments advanced by the Bar to the effect that the extension of audience rights would reduce rather than extend competition . |
| 17 | All of the many degree courses offered at the University of Edinburgh are listed in the tables of the section ‘ Degree Course Requirements ’ . |
| 18 | Make the most of this heightened public awareness of the Medau name , it creates a climate of public interest which gives each of you a wonderful opportunity to discuss and show all of the many sides of our work — specialist classes for the handicapped , classes for Toddlers , relaxation and Breathing classes , and recreational classes for every age and ability , each one structured to the needs of its class members . |
| 19 | Explosives were found in nearly all of the latter and there had been twenty fires in them between 1 November and 26 December 1921 . |
| 20 | Nearly all of the former and two in three of the latter went straight into jobs after they were made redundant . |
| 21 | All of the former officers remained stripped of their rank and were barred from holding public office . |
| 22 | On May 11 the EC signed economic and trade co-operation agreements with Albania and the three Baltic states , thus establishing economic relations with all of the former communist bloc states of eastern Europe . |
| 23 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |
| 24 | Whether man or beast , we are all of the same essence , we all have a soul . |
| 25 | Tracey made a tree with an equal number of rods protruding from each side and all of the same size . |
| 26 | Legislative proposals do not , however , materialise in the chamber out of thin air and they are not , furthermore , all of the same character . |
| 27 | There are plenty of physical weavings : there are tapestries , rugs , knitted clothes , cat 's cradles , plaits , maypole ribbons ; there is knotting , crochet , basket-weaving , pot-coiling and many more skills which are all of the same basic craft . |
| 28 | He argues that the tiger , the lion and the leopard , all of the same genus , Panthera , had a common ancestor , the prehistoric cave lion , also of that genus . |
| 29 | By its very nature , Dialectical Theology was a vital and tempestuous movement , and its leaders were by no means all of the same stamp . |
| 30 | There is a sense — the most important of all — in which Homer and Dante and Milton , Aeschylus and Shakespeare are all of the same age or none . |