Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 2 | By dawn the trench would probably be little more than eighteen inches deep , but it had to be occupied all day , while the enemy gunners resumed their work of levelling . |
| 3 | Probably to be considered all night , he thought bitterly , dropping off to sleep in his clothes . |
| 4 | Your ankle needs to be rested all day . ’ |
| 5 | Carbohydrate foods — it used to be thought all carbohydrate foods — do indeed have a tendency to produce a rebound hunger . |