Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] all to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not seek for all to be totally convinced . |
| 2 | There needs above all to be a consistency in the whole chain linking nature conservation policy with action on the ground . |
| 3 | In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer . |
| 4 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 5 | This condition ought to be seen by all to be quite ridiculous and unacceptable , but it is all too common . |
| 6 | Better that it should end like this , when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done . |
| 7 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 8 | But in the disclaimer his children need above all to be protected from the ghastly consequences of their own actions . |