Example sentences of "all [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigade claimed that it could offer both the spirit and the purpose because it ‘ disciplines and controls our lads … tames flippancy , quells impertinence , promotes chivalry , encourages reverence , teaches ready obedience to all properly constituted authority , and insists upon pure and clean English and temperance in all things ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ But it was all rather good fun looking back on it . ’ |
| 3 | Er I thought you did well in erm giving yourself credibility by talking about the shares , oh yes you can have two hundred and fifty pounds per month in the shares and they 've done well and I said oh yes they have done well , and I felt good that you were praising me up for being such a clever chap , and so I thought that was all , all jolly good stuff . |
| 4 | It was all jolly good fun as well , of course . ’ |
| 5 | For example , in The Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels had written : ‘ The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles . ’ |
| 6 | The central point of the system outlined in The German Ideology is spelled out particularly clearly : ‘ The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles . |
| 7 | Because change occurs as a result of the social conflict resulting from the exploitation of the majority by the minority , Marx and Engels can confidently assert in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ’ . |
| 8 | The proposition that ‘ the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ’ expresses only a partial truth , and the existence of ‘ peoples ’ and ‘ nations ’ , and the relations between them , constitute , I would argue , a largely independent basis for a political world view and political action , the effect of which is to limit the significance and the practical consequences of class membership . |
| 9 | All highly inventive stuff and this latter , somewhat typical of the smaller pieces here , can be had for a modest £140 . |
| 10 | An all together great occasion |
| 11 | Having explained once more she added , ‘ I 'd intended to tell you all together this afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | Well keep them all together this time . |
| 13 | She has given us all so much love . |
| 14 | She gave us all so much love . |
| 15 | It is all so much work and nothing may come of it . |
| 16 | And it was all so much eyewash to keep up their spirits . |
| 17 | We were all so busy making plans , living dreams , that somehow Clare and I — and perhaps Mother too — were blinded to the truth , so evident around us : the unemployment figures , the era of mass production , a new industrial revolution in which machines did the work of thousands of men ; even the fact that ‘ wireless ’ was no longer a novelty . |
| 18 | It 's all , it 's all so eighteenth century landscape . |
| 19 | " It 's all so damned amateur . |
| 20 | From shopping to chopping to cooking — it was all terribly hard work leaving many people too shattered to enjoy the fruits of their own labour ! |
| 21 | The universality of the pragmatic features of communication means that all communicatively competent speech contains the possibility of the ideal speech situation : |
| 22 | It was all just small stuff , tenders and shuttles . |
| 23 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 24 | The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit . |
| 25 | You know it 's all it 's all just one taste |
| 26 | I swallow my fury , stifle my sorrow , and seek consolation by pretending it 's all just another movie . |
| 27 | They 're all just big number , right ? |
| 28 | Well were just the , all just common ground owned by they own all that ground . |
| 29 | I think it means they 're all just older family , I do n't think it means six year olds . |
| 30 | Well they 're all still that size . |