Example sentences of "[det] be all " in BNC.

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1 It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ .
2 Literary fiction next , and a good time for it in Booker month , and the next few are all potential high flyers .
3 so , and , and you will see that 's , that er I do n't know whether some are all the same , but erm there are different , yeah , you know , erm in other words what I 'm saying is they 're not on both channels .
4 And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased .
5 If this were all that Goody claimed he was saying there would still be problems of definition but it might provide some insight into the specific nature of classical Greece and the specific forms of literacy developed there .
6 Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young .
7 ‘ Black with white faces , white with black faces , all black , grey and white , and some were all white . ’
8 This is all you need do for the tax benefit of covenant giving to work .
9 This is all we ask of them .
10 And force him to ask the same questions of his life , and to reply : This is all there is and it is enough .
11 ‘ Look , this is all my fault , ’ I said .
12 This is all down to you , girl , and do n't you dare forget it . ’
13 This is all rather difficult for me , ’ I said .
14 This is all valuable experience .
15 Cool it , Jay ! she told herself , this is all very new .
16 Well this is all very admirable , you might say , and is n't the climbing world just as helpful and welcoming to one newcomer as the next ?
17 Mr Cash is convinced he knows where this is all leading .
18 This is all good rollicking fun , though never quite clean .
19 This is all very dignified , courageous and sincere .
20 One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me .
21 This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ .
22 But this is all quite new and it does not follow that previous generations of advertisers were as enthusiastic about sport .
23 This is all splendid and we are on Lewis 's side .
24 This is all very sudden , I know .
25 This is all a huge improvement on 10 years ago when the children practised their chess in a two-roomed flat with one wall reeking with damp .
26 If he ( the magistrate ) is saying that everything is all right , than this is all lies . ’
27 He said : ‘ It is the company 's security that this is all about .
28 Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer .
29 This is all wrong , as chilli should really be made with pinto beans , a member of the kidney bean family .
30 Starting with the more usual anti-Hobbesian belief in an immaterial God and perceiving minds or souls , he went one step further and said that this is all there is .
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