Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] be all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once in the flat , with Brian having departed promising to see what he could do about an early appointment with Dr Shalcross , she tried to tell herself that she was feeling better , that this break was all she needed , that coming to London was the answer to any temporary difficulty . |
| 2 | Bats are not commonly taken by owls , especially not rhinolophid bats ( Krzanowski , 1973 ) , so this behaviour is all the more exceptional . |
| 3 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 4 | Research on encounters between police and public has shown that from the public 's view even the crime-fighters need communication skills ( Dix and Layzell 1983 ; Southgate and Ekblom 1984 , 1986 ; Sykes and Brent 1983 ) , although these abilities are all too often absent . |
| 5 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 6 | Goblins are so weak and vulnerable that small units are all but useless , while the principle of deep ranks and narrow frontage is essential for combat survival . |
| 7 | They can be subjected to verbal and physical abuse and sexual harassment is all too common . |
| 8 | Features such as kerning , tracking , inter-letter and inter-word spacing control , ligatures and hung punctuation are all but unknown in page makeup yet no typographer would be without them . |
| 9 | For when I ask if this necklace is all right he replies , ’ Yes , if no means looking at three others . ’ |
| 10 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 11 | Television , newspapers , PEBs , party leaflets , and personal conversations were all most useful in helping people decide how to vote if they found politics interesting during the campaign but had lacked a more general interest in politics in the mid-term . |
| 12 | The Payne Fund had sponsored nine investigations in the period between 1929 and 1933 and these observers were all too aware of the impact of the new sociological films and the dangers inherent in further progress in that direction . |
| 13 | If you like to think that we started discuss discuss this discussion by saying there was a demand after the war , you can see now that we met it in , over and over again cos these machines were all over America . |
| 14 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 15 | It is generally agreed that he has mishandled the students , who have been threatened , bullied , fired on with tear-gas grenades ; and now the university is closed which means that these cynical and angry students are all over the country spreading disillusion . |
| 16 | The adonis blue and silver-skipper butterflies are all but extinct . |
| 17 | GARDENERS , cinemagoers , parents , Nintendo fanatics and New Women are all doing their bit to keep the profits rolling in at Emap , publisher of a huge range of consumer mags and newspapers . |
| 18 | The false flavours of dye and chemical smoke are all too perceptible in the finished product . |
| 19 | If I have a gripe with Hartke , it 's that the reproduction is just a little too clear ; missed , fluffed and dissonant notes are all too easily discernible . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm afraid that brutal and senseless attacks are all too common nowadays , ’ said Clarke , the resignation in his voice making an odd contrast to his air of perpetual astonishment . |
| 21 | This parallel and overlapping protection is all the more relevant in the computer industry . |
| 22 | anti-semitism is justified ; 2. anti-semitism may be justified , but some Jews are all right ; 3. anti-semitism is sometimes justified , though often it is not ; 4. anti-semitism is not justified , though sometimes there may be a case for it ; 5 . |
| 23 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 24 | The intent of the politician was of course to create a feeling of obligation , which he undoubtedly hoped would stand him in good stead at the next election , but such feelings were all the stronger because the shrewd political manager never breathed a word about a bargain or the anticipated political return . |
| 25 | But one hour was all he was going to get . |
| 26 | The visitor pressures at Younger , Dawyck and Logan Gardens are much less severe , since these Gardens are all some way from major population centres , and Younger and Dawyck in particular have the acreage to provide for visitor dispersion . |
| 27 | While one tale is all doomed romantic passion , the other portrays an unglamorous urge to stay alive . |
| 28 | ‘ When this show 's all over , I 'm never going to fly another damn ’ kite . |