Example sentences of "be all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , if they maintain their attitude expressed freely to the Official Solicitor 's representative and to their mother , it would be all to no purpose , since no court would make a residence order in favour of the foster mother against the wishes of the children concerned who are of an age to know their own minds . |
| 2 | One can reckon that to be all to the good , from a stranger . |
| 3 | His presence , of course , will make things rather difficult for Canaris which will be all to the good . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yon lawn in t'front must be all on a couple o' acres , ’ stated Jonadab . |
| 5 | I 'll be all on my own this Christmas . |
| 6 | ‘ That 'll be all for now , Mr Brown . |
| 7 | THANK YOU GORBY , THAT WILL BE ALL FOR NOW |
| 8 | I 'd be all for the change because there 's logic in it . |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , Madame , that will be all for the moment , but , ’ he bent his head close to her ear as they moved towards the door , ‘ I would ask you to act as my eyes and ears when I am not present . |
| 10 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 11 | ‘ That 'll be all for the moment , ’ he said . |
| 12 | That will be all for today . |
| 13 | The summit will not be all about Mrs Thatcher 's ritual denunciation of the Social Charter , her contempt for the potential of the European Parliament , her denial that the time is right , her isolated war against any truck with monetary union . |
| 14 | At every turn he is confronted with the need for 0-levels , A-levels , etc and reflects and wonders ‘ what the levels can be all about ? ’ |
| 15 | Now I suppose it 'll be all about what went wrong with Villa . |
| 16 | Is n't this , after all , what the reforms and Mr Major 's much-vaunted Citizen 's Charter are supposed to be all about ? |
| 17 | Was not the citizens charter supposed to be all about open Government ? |
| 18 | While existing premium products were considered adult they were , says Bartle , thought to be all about formal occasions , badge values and impressing others . |
| 19 | They should be all over the place — especially where least expected — halfway down a leg , on a collar , cuff or elbow for instance . |
| 20 | No wonder , living in voluntary filth ; but it is all over the street — will be all over the town unless there 's some special mercy on the place ’ |
| 21 | If he lay there until the morning , assuming he did not pass out , or drown , or spew up and choke to death in the meantime , he would be found when the boys came in to wash ; the humiliation would be unbearable and the whole story would be all over the school by breakfast . |
| 22 | I 'll be all over your tee-shirt and coffee mug . |
| 23 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's going to be all over town — in fact , I ca n't think why it is n't already — and your mother will be the last to know . ’ |
| 25 | It would be all over town that her son wrote pornography . |
| 26 | They looked forward to that future time when God 's rule would be all over the earth . |
| 27 | This would be all over the town , whatever had I been thinking of , going down to the site , had n't I any sense ? |
| 28 | Otherwise , they 'd be all over the place under their own steam . |
| 29 | This would be all over the school tomorrow . |
| 30 | ‘ They will be all over gnat bites , ’ said Jasper . |