Example sentences of "everything is " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 2 | It is a novel which communicates the notion that talented and untalented meet in that country of the mind where everyone copies and steals from everyone else , where everything is reproductive or reminiscent of everything else , where one thing leads to another and this person passes into that . |
| 3 | Watch how other people behave ; remember everything is useful to the actor . |
| 4 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 5 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 6 | Everything is growing apace , especially the weeds ; there are plants to be watered and crops to be gathered . |
| 7 | A regular walk around the garden to make sure everything is growing healthily is the simplest precaution of all , often revealing preliminary signs of trouble . |
| 8 | To make sure everything is covered you could write your questions down before you go . |
| 9 | Everything is very clean , neat and tidy , dusted and polished — but plain , like the man himself . |
| 10 | Everything is open to interpretation , usually by the police , and the poor , hard-pressed licensee and his customers are so confused that the usual solution is to avoid the problem and not let children into the pub at all . |
| 11 | The sector called Le Mur du Six can be blitzed ; apart from two or three 6b 's virtually everything is 5c/6a , with a few even easier . |
| 12 | Busy , yes , but since everything is strictly regulated , there 's bed-space for nearly everyone . |
| 13 | Once in place , Hitachi recommends a trial in a safe area to ensure everything is properly assembled . |
| 14 | The plans are examined by the council for compliance with the Building Regulations , and if everything is in order you will receive an Approval Notice in due course , which you can then file away with your deeds . |
| 15 | ’ And from , or nearly from , the outset there is the hint of a three-cornered relationship in which the future reader of the as yet unwritten Possessed joins novelist and narrator in a conspiracy to uphold the truth of the fiction : ‘ Altogether , when I describe conversations , even tête-à-tête conversations between two people — do n't worry : either I have hard facts , or perhaps I am inventing them myself — but in any case rest assured that everything is true . ’ |
| 16 | But if everything is political , as is often proclaimed , then nothing is ; one can invoke Saussure in the assertion that meaning is a matter of differentiation . |
| 17 | ‘ Everything is under control , ’ said Major Edgardo Lopez Grimaldo , a spokesman for the PDF and a senior Noriega aide , as the rebels , in civilian dress , were led from the barracks by members of the 2000 Battalion , the general 's elite combat force . |
| 18 | Her story-telling has no obliqueness , no mystery ; everything is slowly and patiently explained , as though the audience was a fidgety bunch of six-year-olds . |
| 19 | Everything is taken from previously published material . |
| 20 | Almost everything is wrong with it , in particular the tone , which is enormously soppy : hard to credit from the author of The Color Purple . |
| 21 | Everything is home-grown , home-made and fresh : it tastes like forgotten food . |
| 22 | Not everything is black . |
| 23 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 24 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 25 | The over-extension of the idea is ludicrous , but not ludicrous enough : the connectedness of absolutely everything is the first principle of conpiracy theory anyway , so for want of exaggeration or originality the joke falls horribly flat . |
| 26 | Mr Mandela is thought to want trusted lieutenants , such as Walter Sisulu , to ensure everything is in place before he leaves jail to reassume the reins of the ANC leadership . |
| 27 | I think most policeman ca n't relate to sociology at all , because , you see , the way we 're taught everything is black and white : those who do bad should be punished , those who do good should be rewarded . |
| 28 | The sun is up and everything is peaceful . |
| 29 | Well , just about everything is different . |
| 30 | The big moment arrives and everything is a spectacular success . |