Example sentences of "be all the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , until somebody finds a better way to build a GTi , we 're all the competition we need . |
| 2 | ‘ Are all the treatments we give them justified ? |
| 3 | Add a positive number is the same as a these are all the things you do with positive numbers , this is add a positive number is the same as add a positive number , right . |
| 4 | Missing here are all the intangibles which give the curriculum meaning and purpose , those ‘ hidden ’ elements which develop in children a sense of self worth , purpose , self discipline , respect for others and tolerance for religious beliefs and customs which are different from their own … in other words all the really important qualities which , if it is to flourish , are required by society ! |
| 5 | ‘ These are all the variations I can show you for the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Further down the chain of linked processes , are all the activities which eventually result in the provision of the product to the final consumer . |
| 7 | Reg. v. McPherson is to my mind clearly correctly decided as are all the cases which have followed it . |
| 8 | ‘ Where are all the presents he no doubt bought you ? |
| 9 | Since then , those had been all the places she 'd known . |
| 10 | This weekend your ambitious drive may run out of steam , but friends and colleagues will be all the support you need to encourage you to keep on hammering away at achieving an important goal . |
| 11 | However , FreeHand is simpler to use for the amateur or casual artist and this may be all the motivation he or she needs to buy it in preference to Illustrator 88 . |
| 12 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , that should be all the time I need . |
| 14 | I want to see you on your knees begging for my love before our time is up , and that will be all the satisfaction I need . ’ |
| 15 | At this hour , artificial light will be all the light there is , and your main job the night before will be to ensure that there is sufficient for your purposes . |
| 16 | Inside were all the things they had asked for , and some they had not — some wine , two chickens , twelve big red roses . |
| 17 | But , as producers bowdlerized the romantic stories of Marie Corelli and Hall Caine , as well as literary classics by Dickens , Thackeray and George Eliot , the resulting films were all the evidence one needed that British filmmakers had lost confidence in their own ability to find and develop stories , and exploit the medium 's potential . |
| 18 | Where were all the resolutions she had spent most of the night making ? |
| 19 | There were kids dressed in velvet cloaks who lived free lives ; there were thousands of black people everywhere , so I would n't feel exposed ; there were bookshops with racks of magazines printed without capital letters or the bourgeois disturbance of full stops ; there were shops selling all the records you could desire ; there were parties where girls and boys you did n't know took you upstairs and fucked you ; there were all the drugs you could use . |
| 20 | To any cabbie in Victorian London , those were all the directions he needed . |
| 21 | Half a dozen wild rabbits were all the stock I observed upon them with scarcely a blade or leaf of herbage to keep even these alive ; doubtless through the folly or madness of the first occupiers ( after appropriation ) in converting them to arable farms instead of sheep walks and rabbit warrens ’ . |
| 22 | They were all the family she 'd got . |
| 23 | Well , I did it alone , just with the help of Crossroads , and the district nurse in , in the mornings , five days a week and really that is all the help I had , except that I get domestic staff myself , and any help that I need , I have to pay for . |
| 24 | ‘ That is all the description we can have until we can have until we can speak to Mrs Hardy further . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Finding another post is all the plan I have , ma'am . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That watch belonged to a nobleman , my father , and is all the inheritance I have . ’ |
| 27 | And there is all the critique we need of the notion of empire . |
| 28 | For some it is all the singing they do , other than the occasional hymn or Mass setting . |
| 29 | We 've suffered the shame of your mother 's whoring and this is all the thanks we get . " |
| 30 | ‘ Sod off , ’ is all the thanks I get . |