Example sentences of "be all [det] [modal v] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working from these definitions , it seemed that secondary prevention included two very different situations , that is , early identification of comparatively mild problems with a hopeful outcome , and more serious problems involving risk , in which amelioration and containment might be all that could be achieved . |
| 2 | Certainly the minimum of one-and-a-half days per month envisaged by the Home Office as being all that will be required , it seems to me to be very wide of the mark . |
| 3 | If the child normally manages only half a fish finger and a teaspoon of potato for lunch then this is all that should be placed on the plate so that the child can be encouraged to clear the plate . |
| 4 | One fresh leaf per day eaten in a sandwich or salad is all that should be taken . |
| 5 | Going on until 10 pm two or three nights a week is all that can be managed . |
| 6 | And he leaves us with the teasing comment : ‘ Weizmann 's fermentation process with regard to oil works ; but that , for the moment , is all that can be stated . |
| 7 | Surely one does not spend one 's life as a biblical scholar reinterpreting the tradition because that is all that can be done in view of the fact that , like it or not , we live within this trajectory ? |
| 8 | For an increasing number of them , bed and breakfast accommodation is all that can be found and many stay there indefinitely . |
| 9 | One is fast relative to the other , or slow relative to the other — and that 's all that can be said . ’ |
| 10 | Firmness was all that could be said for it . |
| 11 | When the two girls left the smithy , Gay was carrying the wooden board — a rough affair that was all that could be obtained — and Breeze was leading on the end of a knotted string a small and ill-favoured specimen of doghood . |
| 12 | The front discs were changed and that was all that could be done . |
| 13 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 14 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 15 | It was all that could be done . |