Example sentences of "[be] [subord] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's cos of all the trouble round this area . |
| 2 | The reason it 's warm is because of all that warm blood that 's leaked into it . |
| 3 | The reason why I feel so strongly about the care of the mentally ill is because of all that my aunt , Peggy Jay , taught me . |
| 4 | The familiar acute face had thickened out , and the hair , remembered as darker than it actually was because of all those black-and-white films , had greyed becomingly . |
| 5 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 6 | J W Clifford , now in Darlington but born in Gurney Valley 75 years ago , argues simply that it was because of all the fights not least between the boys of Gurney Valley and their contemporaries from the Cumberland Arms area , then known as Brickyard . |
| 7 | This was because in all 11 cases , the referent was an established discourse focus . |