Example sentences of "all that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If polling day is 9 April , a certain amount of time is needed to get business through the House , and that is all that the guillotine is for . |
| 2 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 3 | No sir I I do accept first of all that the capacity of the city should remain at thirty three . |
| 4 | All that the Bill contains , and the ideology behind it — the values and principles that it espouses — must be rejected tonight in favour of genuine local democracy , and a Labour Government who will implement real policies for the people whom we represent . |
| 5 | That was a slight overestimate of the position , because all that the Bill involves is the transfer of very limited powers to organisations in Scotland . |
| 6 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 7 | When it does happen , all that the Minister will be able to say is , " It should not have happened . " |
| 8 | British manufacturing is taking a blow and all that the Minister can do is to give a monosyllabic , negative answer without any explanation . |
| 9 | We asked people to keep a diary of what they were doing and to fill in this diary every half an hour , saying where they were , who they were with and what they were doing , and we were able to see erm first of all that the range of people that you meet decreases when you 're unemployed , that you 're actually spending more time alone , less time with friends and other people . |
| 10 | She had learned all that the moon and the sand could teach her , and she must search elsewhere . |
| 11 | At the time I was talking to the magistrate I had no doubt at all that the Duke of Marlborough would give evidence for me , if necessary . |
| 12 | It did not surprise him at all that the Chairman 's answer should come , hand-delivered , to his villa at four o'clock in the morning , and that the rendezvous would be away from Baghdad . |
| 13 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 14 | All that the RHA could offer were statements of intent about the desirability of building ‘ comprehensive joint health and social services for mental illness ’ . |
| 15 | But a direct consequence of this was the appearance of a mother-goddess whose fecund body and ample breasts promised a phantasy-gratification for all that the delayed-return subsistence systems denied . |
| 16 | Despite the lack of specific reacting cells , there is no doubt at all that the lymphocyte is the ‘ master of ceremonies ’ for all the activity . |
| 17 | First of all that the Plan Two policy there is for vehicles over five years , sixty thousand miles . |
| 18 | Help us to understand and appreciate more deeply all that the resurrection of our Saviour means , and may we show in our lives the joy which belief in Jesus ' promise means ; help us to live so that we draw others to meet Jesus for themselves . |
| 19 | Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept . |
| 20 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 21 | Also , at the end of the day it is arguable that all that the register needs to show are the principal charges over the company 's property since anyone dealing with the company can seek to find out the full extent to which the company 's property has been charged once put on notice that some charges have been created . |
| 22 | This found that , without guidance , teachers gave what was little more than a reflexive response — all that the majority of primary school teachers appeared to wish to receive was more basic skills training . |
| 23 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 24 | Instead of recognition , all that the quarrel had incurred was a deepening blindness . |
| 25 | With the end of the centenary year , one hopes the flood may reduce to a trickle , About all that the present two books have in common are their catchpenny titles . |
| 26 | As a result of them , the pre-pubertal youngster changes comparatively rapidly into the sexual adult , with all that the change implies . |
| 27 | The recent nomination of a woman as Assistant Bishop of Massachusetts , and the remarks of one diocesan bishop that ‘ the ordination of women to the priesthood must be achieved at practically any cost ’ will cause great despair and lead to grave questioning of all that the Church of England has stood for . |
| 28 | The papacy 's purpose and raison d'être was to missionize and convert , to spread the Gospel and all that the Church stood for . |
| 29 | He advocated a unified central approach to budgeting and recommended above all that the State Control , the regime 's auditing body , be given access to the accounts of all government agencies . |
| 30 | In nine cases in Ipswich and nine in Newham relatively infrequent monitoring of the home care situation was all that the development officers provided . |