Example sentences of "all [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 2 | Perhaps most fundamental of all , however , was the climate of hostility and mistrust that existed between East and West during the ‘ new cold war ’ of the late 1970s and early 1980s ; and it was the dissipation of this climate , above all through a series of face-to-face meetings between the Soviet and American leaders , that contributed most directly to the resumption of progress in arms control and other matters . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : Yet your sunshine of late is all through a cloud . |
| 4 | But if he laughed all through a sitting or recited passages of Dante , Rimbaud or Verlaine by heart , that was a dangerous sign , ‘ Then one knew that he should n't be annoyed . ’ |
| 5 | Its effects are far reaching and require a proactive response from industry — all during a time of change in Europe when the barriers are coming down , the single market is open for trade and it is up to all of us to take advantage of it . |
| 6 | Others who attended District courses not infrequently failed to submit claims for the remission of fees — all during a period of high unemployment and short-time working which suggested that in this District at least , the WETUC was of little perceived interest or known value to those it existed to support . |
| 7 | Ivan IV then began the practice of temporarily halting any movement at all during a number of ‘ forbidden years ’ . |
| 8 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 9 | It 's the story all about a man who had two very nice daughters . |
| 10 | as if that were n't enough , she is next summoned to the American Embassy where the CIA chief ( the wonderful Walter Matthau ) tells her all about a war-time plot in which her husband was involved . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's all about a character co-incidentally called Wilf who makes a living by developing new inventions that no home should be without . |
| 12 | In time to come , John would add some new words all about a bird he knew who kept trying to commit suicide : ‘ Blood on the ceiling blood on the walls , blood on the floor . ’ |
| 13 | It 's a shame that they 're all about a drink but anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 15 | This one 's all about a party . |
| 16 | ‘ IT 'S ALL about a bunch of old lags who probably should n't , but help themselves they could n't , and if they had to do it again they would n't … ‘ |
| 17 | What you do for the first two years is you learn all the theory of being a doctor and you go and you have to between eight of you , learn all about a body you have one body between of you and you learn all about all the muscles and the nerves |
| 18 | Tonight we went to a film all about a peasant leader who had to fight against some bad elements in his village , it was good and funny in parts . |
| 19 | Erm , I mean I think if we 're wishing to analyse the application , I I think we must consider what it does n't do for the village , and I think there are a number of aspects that have to be considered , erm , first of all as a village , and I 've heard in this very Parish Council that the reputed view made that there is a need for small village accommodation , this development certainly does not provide that , we 've also expressed a view that it would be nice to retain the existing bungalow , because that is small village accommodation , and although it only has a very limited history , again it would be nice to retain it as an integral part of the village . |
| 20 | No , not more accurate : ‘ thirst ’ is not accurate at all as a description for this apparently indescribable condition . |
| 21 | Two centuries later , the Enlightenment returns : but not at all as a way for the West to take cognizance of its present possibilities and of the liberties to which it can have access , but as a way of interrogating it on its limits and on the powers which it has abused . |
| 22 | ‘ I acquired it all as a job lot . |
| 23 | There would always be critics who would see it all as a carrot to attract the donkey . |
| 24 | This means that you are seen by several people , individually , in succession , rather than facing them all as a group . |
| 25 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 26 | Here , for example , is an initial organisation of an essay on the Scottish novelist Josephine Tey : introduction career as a London playwright recent critical appraisal powers of description humour education church the divided self the divided self — most of all as a woman her final novel — The Singing Sands . |
| 27 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 29 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 30 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |