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 | 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 . |
| 12 | " It 's all so damned amateur . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | The universality of the pragmatic features of communication means that all communicatively competent speech contains the possibility of the ideal speech situation : |
| 15 | It was all just small stuff , tenders and shuttles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They 're all just big number , right ? |
| 18 | Well were just the , all just common ground owned by they own all that ground . |
| 19 | Yet the ability to read with attention , to increase your reading speed , to improve your comprehension , to assess critically the strengths of competing arguments and to take useful notes — these are all vitally important study skills . |
| 20 | The correct speed , position and signal on the approach to the roundabout , while on the roundabout and when leaving the roundabout are all vitally important driving skills to be considered and applied as necessary . |
| 21 | Sheffield , Manchester , Liverpool and Bradford , all under strong labour pressure , were among the more active , especially as the number of working-class councillors increased from the early 1890s . |
| 22 | These effects would be real enough , but it would be naive to suppose that cheap loans and the raising of aggregate demand would render all socially desirable investment projects in the sphere of commodity production sufficiently profitable to make capitalist enterprises come clamouring for public funds . |
| 23 | It seems that all reasonably efficient communication systems are digital in this sense . |
| 24 | And was that the kind of er was it still all mainly military type of work that you , you were doing , even after the war ? |
| 25 | Third , all purely historical study by its very nature can offer only provisional results . |
| 26 | This did n't stop the interview from re-surfacing two weeks later in Zigzag wherein Morrissey acknowledged his undying erotic passion for leather car seats , amongst other things … all fairly lightweight banter and all revolving , enticingly ( ? ) around Morrissey 's underlying eroticism . |
| 27 | Different groups of bats use sonar in radically different ways , and they seem to have " invented " it separately and independently , just as the British , Germans and Americans all independently developed radar . |
| 28 | All quite harmless fun , no doubt — even Karen was n't going to seduce her husband 's partners teenage son — but I was not best pleased , especially since Tibbs showed no reciprocal interest in me . |
| 29 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |
| 30 | In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish . |