Example sentences of "all that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 2 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 3 | All that it demonstrates , through a three-hours-seeming 75 minutes , is that counter-stereotypes tend to harden into stereotypes in their turn . |
| 4 | Each January the Association gets a transfusion with the payment of the annual subscriptions , but our corporate health is not all that it could be . |
| 5 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 6 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 7 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 8 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 9 | That 's the reason why the needed not only to draw her self-portrait , but also to make it clear to all that it embodied something unique and irreplaceable , something worth fighting or even dying for . |
| 10 | Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be . |
| 11 | No , I ca n't see a weekend in Paris improving the situation … with all that it would obviously lead to . |
| 12 | Following upon a letter written to Churchill by four senior cryptanalysts in Huts 6 and 8 complaining about lack of resources , the Prime Minister had ordered that on ‘ extreme priority ’ Bletchley should have all that it needed . |
| 13 | The obvious response to this question would be to say that the school should do all that it reasonably can . |
| 14 | But if they are , the parasite will do all that it can to help the host , not only to survive but to reproduce . |
| 15 | Thus , one predator can learn to avoid brightly coloured individuals without killing all that it encounters . |
| 16 | If such a working model of haemoglobin could be made , it would prove once and for all that it is the iron and not the porphyrin that 's ultimately responsible for the properties of haemoglobin . |
| 17 | As already implied , the content of the foregoing speculations on the source and scale of man 's capability for life enjoyment and all that it could mean is , of course , hypothetical , and in any case the development was spread over millions of years , but it does however provide a basis for thought which does not require the invocation of the supernatural . |
| 18 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
| 19 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure he understands all that it involves . |
| 21 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 22 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 23 | But it would have been very different to make him a coach this winter , with all that it entails . ’ |
| 24 | As you probably know , even the cleanest looking carpet is not all that it appears . |
| 25 | MISLEADING : Clydesdale 's offer is n't all that it seems |
| 26 | J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892–1973 ) , a Catholic by upbringing , wrote in praise of the remembered virtues of the British Tommy in the trenches during the First World War , and the enormous and highly improbable success of The Lord of the Rings ( 1954–5 ) , for all that it began as a cult in the United States rather than at home , struck a chord that was ultimately insular , tribal and boldly British . |
| 27 | For all that it was a truly wonderful job . ’ |
| 28 | For all that it sold for $46,200 ( £30,800 ) ( est. $30–50,000 ) . |
| 29 | I knew I had all that it takes ; the others told me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The book achieves all that it claims — another first in modern language teaching . ’ |