Example sentences of "is all [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all that remains of Hitler 's bunker , the place of Gotterdammerung . |
| 2 | This east wing is all that remains of a house that was once in the shape of an ‘ E ’ without the middle . |
| 3 | In brick , it is superb and rises above a cloister that is all that remains of the monastery . |
| 4 | The surrounding terracing is all that remains of Prague 's vineyards . |
| 5 | The great wall at the end is all that remains of the Baroque fortifications of Prague . |
| 6 | THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION : Smashed and mangled metal around the battered tailplane is all that remains of the doomed airbus in which 167 people were killed |
| 7 | Tomdoun , once a staging post on the road to the Isles but cruelly bypassed by the new road , is the last outpost , the road continuing and coming alongside the enlarged Loch Quoich where an isolated clump of rhododendrons is all that remains of Glenquoich Lodge . |
| 8 | A patchy stone outline on Kirkhill is all that remains of St Mary-on-the-Rock , close to the massive wall surrounding the later church of St Rule , itself to be overshadowed in 1160 by the cathedral of Our Lady and St Andrew . |
| 9 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 10 | Near to it stands the Wailing Wall which is all that remains of the ancient Jewish Temple , . |
| 11 | The overpowering , sickly sweet smell is all that remains of a way of life , or a form of life , which has all but disappeared . |
| 12 | This is all that remains of a noble old building once owned by the Bishops of Rochester and known locally as the Old Palace . |
| 13 | Part III is all that remains of the 1964 Act . |
| 14 | A sunken wreck in the Severn by Worcester racecourse is all that remains of the Tarka , a former lifeboat that took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 . |
| 15 | This is all that remains of a stolen van , dumped on an isolated track in the forest of dean , then set alight . |
| 16 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 17 | The tail section is all that remains of two Vampire aircraft owned by Colin Appleyard , managing director of Appleyards Bodyshop . |
| 18 | Outside this one there is a lone snow bunting pecking mournfully at a muddy patch of shingle that is all that shows through the snow . |
| 19 | Society leaders argue that their single issue approach works — which is all that matters to them . |
| 20 | That is all that matters to me . |
| 21 | The effect of the work on a significant proportion of the likely audience is all that matters in deciding whether it is obscene under s1 . |
| 22 | The assertion that ‘ good ’ workers are good and ‘ bad ’ workers bad irrespective of location ( and that that is all that needs to be said ) must be displaced or qualified by a demonstration that organizational form exerts an influence . |
| 23 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 24 | It might of course be claimed that this is all that has to be sorted out : just tidy up the definitions , and the problem will be resolved . |
| 25 | The connection is all that has to be shown . ’ |
| 26 | They say a small amount of money is all that seems to be missing from the Springburn flat where Mrs Law 's body was discovered exactly two weeks ago . |
| 27 | WHEN a bowl of gruel is all that stands between a toddler and death , it was wonderful to see little Issi gain his salvation in Somalia . |
| 28 | On the other , the government needs the flood of coca-dollars , which is all that stands between Bolivia and total collapse . |
| 29 | However , this is all due to change with the proposed introduction of a new chain ferry which will be able to carry twice the number of cars . |
| 30 | And you 're looking and what , what , what relevance is all this got to it because it 's not , nothing 's given negative , |