Example sentences of "all [prep] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it was all about was to do with politics . |
| 2 | He was a voluminous writer of fiction : his earliest novel , Rogues and Vagabonds , was serialized in One and All before being published as a book in 1885 . |
| 3 | Would you expect it all to be done for you now ? |
| 4 | They are all to be seen with the Empress in the Winterhalter portrait . |
| 5 | Michael Powell noticed the development of a ‘ civil service ’ mentality within Rank at the time of making The Red Shoes , but his argument that ‘ there is something after all to be said for lavishness , improvisation and a certain amount of waste ’ was not likely to make much headway with John Davis , managing director of Rank from 1948 , who disliked creative people , considering them extravagant and unreliable . |
| 6 | Are you askin' for him an' all to be stabbed with a pair of scissors ? … |
| 7 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 8 | All to be achieved within one and a half hours . |
| 9 | If the decisions are all to be made in Brussels , why should the Scots send Members of Parliament to Westminster ? |
| 10 | In those days , of course , there was n't much money at all to be made from athletics . |
| 11 | Blake says : ‘ In learning to interpret the horse 's vocal sounds , the tone , note and delivery are all to be taken into account , and so are the non-verbal messages — the body signs — that accompany the sound . ’ |
| 12 | And all to be set to her account , for she had driven him away ! |
| 13 | The bedrooms are all to be equipped with TV , radio and telephone . |
| 14 | The physical and organizational settings in which children 's learning took place were to be all-important , and the combination of PNP resourcing , advisory effort and enhanced school staffing were all to be directed to their improvement , or to establishing what advisory staff termed ‘ the quality learning environment ’ . |
| 15 | There are many ways to grab a person but they are all to be avoided for two reasons . |
| 16 | But in the disclaimer his children need above all to be protected from the ghastly consequences of their own actions . |
| 17 | I mean un unless you make the control room blast proof , which is maybe a thing to be looked in to in the future and then again they 're speaking about making the accommodation module separate from the platform itself which is another thing , but I mean that 's all to be looked at . |
| 18 | It was decreed that they were all to be suspended from their duties : commissioners were to hear complaints against them , and those found guilty were to be permanently removed from office . |
| 19 | Thus speculative balances are likely first of all to be spent on financial assets which are close substitutes for money , rather than on real assets such as land , buildings , and the like . |
| 20 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 21 | Robert correctly answered the 10 questions , the answers to which were all to be found in the BNFL publication ‘ Our Environment ’ , and a cheque for £150 is on its way to him . |
| 22 | Poles , Ukrainians and Jews were all to be found in the western , south-western and southern parts of the empire . |
| 23 | The wives of farmers and farm labourers , of general labourers and of miners are all to be found among their ranks . |
| 24 | Proliferation of such schemes will make it essential both to try to avoid consumer confusion , and also to ensure that gaps and overlap are guarded against , but they are all to be welcomed as a recognition that a proper complaints and redress system is necessary if justice is to be done . |