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

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1 There are plenty of physical weavings : there are tapestries , rugs , knitted clothes , cat 's cradles , plaits , maypole ribbons ; there is knotting , crochet , basket-weaving , pot-coiling and many more skills which are all of the same basic craft .
2 As this is a soliloquy , it reflects Brutus 's true thoughts , which are all for the general good of Rome , and not for his own ends .
3 To maintain the continuity of movement on the screen from shot to shot , the girl 's walk along the path should be recorded from camera positions which are all within the ‘ 180 degree zone ’ on the same side of the path , eg at A and B. If shot 2 is taken from C , the audience becomes confused as the girl appears to have reversed her direction compared with shot 1 .
4 Guests can spend time by the sea — the sandy beaches of Senigallia are only 20 miles away — or explore the major Umbrian cities , like Gubbio and Assisi , which are all within an hour 's drive of the hotel .
5 In the examples she used , which were all in the empirical mode , it was the case that the event following because was the one which happened first .
6 In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " .
7 Other varieties were made on farms in small quantities and were usually for home consumption only , but the resurgence of interest in farmhouse foods coupled with milk quotas that forced farmers to look for ways of using their surplus milk , has brought about a revolution in British cheesemaking , which is all to the good for the cheese eating public .
8 Since hearing of Anna 's job , she had been fired with restiveness , pacing round her small green-and-magnolia sitting-room , peering yearningly out of its single window at the narrow terrace which was all of the outside world that she owned .
9 Was that that PEP thing what 's all in the papers at the moment ?
10 I think this being an old hag is what is all in the mind !
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