Example sentences of "everything [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British have fallen in love with this Mediterranean island because it has everything for a perfect holiday : sunny skies , glorious beaches , bustling resorts , friendly people , fascinating sights and beautiful countryside . |
| 2 | He guessed that was how she would always be , blocking out everything for the preferred world of her own creation until an idea was spent . |
| 3 | The quiet discursive approach actually delivers the goods in terms of reforming this nation and increasing our prosperity more effectively than carrying on everything as a flat-out argument . |
| 4 | It would be very strange if I stood here saying do n't use a linear script use thought patterns and yet I was reading everything off a linear script would n't it ? |
| 5 | He saw everything through a red mist . |
| 6 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 7 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 8 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 9 | In fact , she liked everything about the dismal house with its strange air of disuse . |
| 10 | Ordinary shares ( as the name implies ) constitute the residuary class in which is vested everything after the special rights of preference classes , if any , have been satisfied . |
| 11 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 12 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 13 | Once , ’ he continued , ‘ everything beneath the great Tor was covered in marsh , meres and pools , but the monks have drained these dry and turned the land into one of God 's great wonders . ’ |
| 14 | Petion stayed nervously by the door , and Ace joined him there , watching suspiciously as Dubois checked everything with a professional eye . |
| 15 | It was 1963 and as David started his new job , ‘ Mersey Mania ’ was taking its stranglehold on the charts with The Beatles , Gerry and the Pacemakers , Freddie and The Dreamers ; everything with a Liverpudlian accent tasted success . |
| 16 | For a moment he paused at the threshold , but then turned back inside , taking in the sight of an ivory chess set , a small telescope , a number of small fluted carvings , and the fine hangings adorning the wall , observing everything with a cocked head as if listening for something . |
| 17 | Nearly always some compromise can be reached with the vendor , depending on whether it is a buyer 's or a seller 's market , but at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you 've been through everything with a fine tooth comb , that you 've done the best you possibly can and know what you are letting yourself in for ! |
| 18 | By Thatcherite standards Mr Major fought a dreadfully mealy-mouthed campaign in which pretty well everything with a cutting edge about the Tory record was blunted . |
| 19 | Then the wind got up , and coated everything with an invasive layer of caustic soda . |
| 20 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 21 | After the Blefuscans had arranged everything with the Lilliputian officials , they came to visit me . |
| 22 | We must do everything with the utmost precision , and beauty of tone . |
| 23 | Likewise , everything above the 80 northing is positive , whilst everything below is negative . |
| 24 | But the puritan lobby do a disservice to their cause by lumping everything under the one name , just as the temperance lobby forfeit respect by classing a Christmas sherry with a vodka bacchanal . |
| 25 | One surprising factor is that given a new case is only around £50 there is nothing stopping you from moving everything into a new box if the old one is n't big enough to take a standard size motherboard . |
| 26 | Afterwards they fitted everything into a big box . |
| 27 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 28 | But for each individual student , the best thing is to put everything into the private account . |
| 29 | Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails . |
| 30 | A Martha Graham-based technique with its low centre of gravity , draws everything into the solar plexus in a more primal — some might say natural — form of dance . |