Example sentences of "of [v-ing] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may arrive in sight of the same conclusion , near enough to see the possibility of rooting all valuation in a single principle of awareness , by an approach from the opposite direction . |
| 2 | while individual ‘ stress-coping ’ strategies do help to alleviate the symptoms of stress , only an organisational approach to reducing stress has a real chance of helping all teachers . |
| 3 | It preaches the virtues of helping all hardship cases , but the old rating system to which the Opposition wish to return would impose considerable costs on students , as it did before . |
| 4 | ‘ The Service also has the responsibility of helping all students to achieve their aspirations in the fields of employment and postgraduate studies and to gather and collate statistics on first destinations . ’ |
| 5 | Dingleton 's practice of seeing all patients in their own homes ( or occasionally the general practitioner 's surgery ) has never been systematically evaluated . |
| 6 | The Court thought that such rights would restrict the authorities ' discretion , and the job of circularising all shareholders with the relevant information prior to cancellation would be too expensive and difficult . |
| 7 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 8 | Topped with the typical cynical yet liberal chorus , ‘ William It Was Really Nothing ’ appeared as a complete condemnation of the ‘ Glenda Brownlow ’ approach towards marriage ; simply another of Morrissey 's attempts to dispense with a traditionally Northern , working class system , an assault on an institution which effectively freezes two people into whatever mundane existence they live , as a blindly accepted method of halting all ambition . |
| 9 | McIllvanney had offered to let her stay on board Wavebreaker , so long as the boat 's air conditioners were disconnected , but his offer was not as generous as it seemed for Ellen would have been little more than an unpaid security guard and also subject to Bellybutton 's endlessly tedious suggestions , and she far preferred her small hot room in the busy crowded apartment block that smelt of cooking all day and marijuana all night . |
| 10 | It is the last because ACDP itself has almost reached its objective of transforming all SCOTVEC 's advanced courses into their new modular format . |
| 11 | A report in the Guardian of May 21 said that Hong Kong was seeking to abandon its policy of screening introduced in June 1988 [ see p. 36763 ] in favour of re-classifying all boat people as " economic migrants " , thereby making them subject , in theory , to mandatory repatriation . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that if such organisations achieve their objective of eliminating all laboratory animal use in medical research , the chances of finding treatments for diseases like multiple sclerosis , muscular dystrophy , cystic fibrosis , cancer , Aids etc. would be significantly reduced . |
| 13 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 14 | Among many other observations , Alvares recorded the age-old custom of secluding all members of the royal line , other than the King 's children , on an almost sheer-sided mountain . |
| 15 | The Community avoids the approach of harmonising all aspects of licensing and regulation of the conduct of business , but instead establishes essential standards . |
| 16 | You know , Elaine did n't register my birth , and we 're not really sure whether the facts she gave were absolutely true , so it 's going to be a matter of checking all babies born on the same day in the same area , and I 'm not sure whether the people at St Catherine 's House can do that sort of thing . |
| 17 | I rarely speak or am active on guillotine motions and resulting business arrangements on timing , because in general I have long been in favour of timetabling all Bills from the start . |
| 18 | ‘ People should realise that passing their test does not mean that they are capable of driving all types of car . |
| 19 | It had the effect of driving all parties to the debate into separate corners : the employers wished to preserve the status quo . |
| 20 | Over 4000 members have already given their verdict in favour of the club 's ‘ fabulous facilities manifesto ’ and its dual function , ( tennis ' double whammy , if you like ! ) , that of meeting all member needs while maintaining a warm and welcoming atmosphere within the club 's spacious acres . |
| 21 | The traditional bloom process was still capable of meeting all needs , for a negligible outlay ; the exotic indirect process had been introduced as an act of state policy simply in order to make cannons , the need for which had been proved by the effectiveness of French artillery — against the English themselves — in the wars of the fifteenth century ; Newbridge , where the first successful gun had been cast in 1509 , was Crown property . |
| 22 | The challenge of meeting all children 's needs and of helping them achieve their rights can only be met by concerted efforts of governments of multi-lateral agencies and bi-lateral donors , as well as by the path-breaking initiatives of N G Os such as Save The Children . |
| 23 | But in 1899 the principle of transporting all parcels by passenger train was abandoned and a new parcels station ( Paris-Messageries ) was established at the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis . |
| 24 | The central idea of the Town and Country Planning Act was to make possible the control of development without incurring charges for compensation , by the device of nationalising all development rights in advance . |
| 25 | The practice of fingerprinting all aliens within Japan had become symbolic of general racial discrimination against the large Korean population . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , reaction in the Arab world was strong , ranging from Syria 's allegation that the killings were a " premeditated massacre " forming part of the Israeli policy of annihilation of the Palestinian people , to an Egyptian statement which said that the " painful incident " showed the importance of overcoming all obstacles to the peace process . |
| 27 | When the rules concerning driver 's hours changed significantly on 29 September 1986 the haulier , not Overdrive , had the task of informing all drivers on the new provisions . |
| 28 | This type of unit has the advantages , ( where a farm shop is operating ) of selling all eggs produced from their own shop . |
| 29 | The rapid progress of scientific knowledge , he declared , would be ‘ the means under God of extirpating all error and prejudice , and of putting an end to all undue and usurped authority in the business of religion as well as of science . ’ |
| 30 | First , in talking of adding all truths at once we seem to have moved firmly into the realm of fiction . |