Example sentences of "all [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this argument wrongly denies the existence of any real relationship at all between the listener and the musical object itself , turning that relationship into an abstract reflection of the laws of the capitalist system , and ‘ ignoring … what is irreducibly extra-economic in consumption ’ ( ibid : 48 ) ; and this denial depends in turn on an implicitly idealist definition of ‘ needs ’ , against which the satisfactions gained from actual listening can be unthinkingly described as ‘ false ’ . |
| 2 | Being female dictates the type of job , and being female affects absentee behaviour , but once sex is controlled there is no link at all between the type of job and absenteeism . |
| 3 | There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage . |
| 4 | The most sensitive boundary of all between the executive , in the shape of Ministers , and the judiciary , in the shape of the Lord Chief Justice and puisne judges of the Queen 's Bench Division , is the sentencing of offenders . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you go out of the room at all between the time you arrived and , say , a quarter to ten ? ’ |
| 6 | In fact all through the journey Tock complained . |
| 7 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 8 | Apart from the occasions when bream are preoccupied with full larders of fry , there are times all through the year when they will eat a small fish , just the same as there are times when they will chomp a lobworm . |
| 9 | Our holiday funds are raised by countless and most often unnamed people who work hard all through the year to swell our funds . |
| 10 | Er this is erm , er this is the Spring , ca n't read out what it is , the Spring , this is the great Spring raffle , Amnesty does get quite a lot of money from the raffles , er they start off with just the Christmas one now we have them all through the year I think , |
| 11 | As we shall see , such pasturage was increasingly valuable ( and hence subject to regulation ) and this was part of a general concern from the Middle Ages onwards with providing sufficient grass and fodder for animals all through the year . |
| 12 | ‘ To me , ’ I said , ‘ Fullcircle seems cheerful all through the year . ’ |
| 13 | Shetland and all through the North Isles of Orkney , everywhere . |
| 14 | Pass all through the mill of your mind and do n't use forms unmeaningly , like buttons on the back of a coat … although house building is very much a practical art the practical elements may be met gracefully and pleasantly , there is scope for dignity , humour and even romance . |
| 15 | The 12 jurors who eventually emerged , acquitting themselves both responsibly and wisely , were mocked all through the trial for their necessary ignorance . |
| 16 | Cranog Jones maintained he was innocent all through the trial . |
| 17 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 18 | all the mail and junk letters all through the door and everything looked tatty . |
| 19 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 20 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 21 | And we went all round the bed and we went all round outside , we went all through the back smelt outside Jane 's door in case she 'd she were on fire could n't find nothing , sat down and read , he said it 's cos the telly 's on and I expect it 's damp and it 's you know |
| 22 | The students go out and spend part of each week all through the school year in the schools , and the teachers in those schools , whether they are science teachers or history teachers or English teachers , collaborate with us in helping to train those students . |
| 23 | She coughed , and when her nose was plugged up it was difficult for her to suck properly ; she cried to be fed all through the night and Phoebe got more and more tired , more and more passive and despairing and guilty . |
| 24 | Would you say that if this pattern were to be repeated all through the night we would run out of dry-roasted nuts just before the important watershed of midnight , whereas we would still have a surplus of the ordinary variety ? |
| 25 | He worked all through the night and into the next day . |
| 26 | It is important not to be brutal in this respect : one can not expect a puppy to go all through the night and be clean in the morning — it is physically impossible . |
| 27 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 28 | For his gut was still queasy with occasional pain : Rab hoped not to be up all through the night . |
| 29 | All through the night it continued , and all through the night thunder boomed and lightning ripped across the sky in jagged white flashes . |
| 30 | They have heard screaming all through the night . |