Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first version suggests that women can gain authority by using men 's linguistic strategies , while the second is more sceptical about this ; linguistic strategies are after all chosen within particular social contexts and relations . |
| 2 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 3 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 4 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 5 | Europe is here , English is the language of Europe , the influences are from all the other countries . |
| 6 | Miller and Swift 's Handbook is an extremely influential text ; it and similar books are on all the best shelves nowadays . |
| 7 | In the first speeches , the Jews were above all at the heart of Hitler 's ferocious attacks on war ‘ profiteers ’ , ‘ racketeers ’ , and ‘ parasites ’ — an expression of his brand of populist anti-capitalism . |
| 8 | If adults are not able to travel far to attend courses , any reduction in the range of courses in terms of subject content , levels ( eg HNC , degree ) and modes of study provided in a geographical area could result in some subjects being to all intents and purposes inaccessible to adults . |
| 9 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 10 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 11 | This is interesting , because we know that even in the post-exilic period a considerable proportion of the Jews was for all practical purposes polytheistic . |
| 12 | It is applicable to a wide range of patients and their complaints , and its main limitations are in all likelihood the limitations of the practitioner himself . |
| 13 | Anyone whose family circumstances are at all unusual should do so . |
| 14 | It was somewhat outside his province and yet , he thought , anyone who was willing to leave a Western nuclear establishment to help Dr Tariq build his atom bomb was either an idiot or a traitor , and traitors were after all his special subject . |
| 15 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 16 | But as these guitars are to all intents and purposes custom made , the buyer can specify virtually anything . |
| 17 | Some teachers and psychologists are against all study which makes language , in Cazden 's term , ‘ opaque ’ ( Cazden , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | The actualizing tendency suggests that even these failing individuals are at all times capable of growth and development , so it is an essentially optimistic view of the human condition , and this is particularly important when working with older people . |
| 19 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 20 | ‘ The trousers is about all we 've got at the moment . |
| 21 | Three years is after all a long time . |
| 22 | On this last point , it is worth emphasizing , in advance of the evidence , that Nietzsche did certainly reject a quantity of material before the final draft , but that few of the " suppressed " passages are at all long and none are strikingly impressive . |
| 23 | Erm and he says there all things are in all things but each is coloured according to the host . |
| 24 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 25 | Yet they were surely correct in their fundamental premise , that what distinguished the twelfth century from its predecessors was above all the proliferation of new political communities , juridically defined by their consuetudines or coutumes . |
| 26 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 27 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 28 | Election by plurality in single-member constituencies is of all methods the simplest . |
| 29 | The percentages are of all households in each ethnic group with dependent children under the age of 19 . |
| 30 | Indeed , statistics reveal just how remarkably consistent European Tour players are in all areas of the game . |