Example sentences of "[be] [adv] all [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And then I realized it might not have been so all of a sudden at that .
2 Recent feminist commentaries have pointed out that these images of God are not all of a male person .
3 Even within a discipline , values are not all of a piece .
4 TNCs are not all of a piece .
5 They are not all of the same date .
6 For instance , a quick examination of the subclasses of the architecture schedules in Dewey shows that the subdivisions are not all of the same type .
7 The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength .
8 Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles .
9 Before continuing , it must be noted that though all freemasonry flows from similar origins , they are not all under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England .
10 They 're probably all at the bottom .
11 They are probably all at the bottom .
12 They are nearly all of the late Byzantine building period — eleventh to fourteenth centuries — and mostly have many domes raised on drums .
13 For his gut was still queasy with occasional pain : Rab hoped not to be up all through the night .
14 Our supposed sample of university students might , just by chance , turn out to be nearly all from the faculty of law , which may be only a very small faculty .
15 When the churches are gone religion will be simply all in the mind
16 Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France .
17 The innately known truths which some people postulated were not all of a piece .
18 THE ten shares tipped in our Questor Selection series were not all at the forefront of the post-election rally on the stock market on Friday but some showed good gains .
19 The complaints were not all on the one side .
20 Nevertheless , Seton and his lieutenants , watching from the parapet of the main North Gate , decided that a warning salvo would do no harm , and show Edward that they were not all like the Earl of Dunbar .
21 The learning that is characteristic of higher education is not all of a piece ; some of it is not properly described by the limited concept of learning .
22 Yet more decisively , it is not all of the general property , including that part or whatever that is involved in the soup tureen , which also weighs two pounds , that is flattening the napkin .
23 It is not all of the bottle of wine , or any individual property of it other than its own property of weighing two pounds , that is an instance of the general property of weighing two pounds .
24 There is much hypocrisy practised against homosexuals and I hope not to contribute to it , but it is not all on the one side .
25 It is probably all to the good that I did n't have this book with me , since the ready availability of a thick volume containing every registration number ever carried by every aeroplane currently registered or based in the United Kingdom could only have prompted further unanswerable questions as to why anyone could therefore need to write them down .
26 IT is probably all for the good that Alain Prost left McLaren to join Ferrari at the end of the season because I doubt his autobiography , Life in the Fast Lane , will be nestling in the McLaren chief Ron Dennis 's Christmas stocking .
27 Oh , well , she sighed , as she climbed into bed , it 's probably all to the good .
28 The objective in the LFAs designated under Article 3(4) — as is virtually all of the UK 's LFA — is to stem rural depopulation and conserve the countryside by retaining an agricultural industry .
29 It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility .
30 I agree now , yes , it was just all in the same paragraph , and it just sort of a bit odd .
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