Example sentences of "all [noun pl] be [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Although there is a lack of reliable data on acute pesticide poisoning , the committee said that it was clear that approximately two thirds of all poisonings were suicide attempts and that a quarter were accidental . |
2 | So riddled with complexities has this question proved to be that one is tempted to follow the example of the legendary definition of folk song — ‘ all songs are folk songs ; I never heard horses sing 'em ’ — and suggest that all music is popular music : popular with someone . |
3 | All Issaqs are SNM fighters . ’ |
4 | 90% OF ALL SKATERS ARE STREET SKATERS |
5 | All , all companies are con companies |
6 | And Jonathan Demme , the Oscar-accoladed director of ‘ The Silence of the Lambs ’ , declares with disarming frankness that ‘ all films are exploitation films ’ . |
7 | Research revealed that , as a result of this , the biggest single occupational groups were petty traders and domestic servants , while only 2.8 per cent of all earners were factory workers ( Goldthorpe 1975 ) . |
8 | Like many others , it was first recorded in the Domesday survey as a corn mill , but as virtually all mills were corn mills , this is not unusual . |
9 | Not all teachers are closet radicals , though , waiting for the moment when the unbolting of the examination doors will allow them to open up their pedagogical style . |
10 | Not all cuckoos are brood parasites and not all brood parasites are cuckoos . |
11 | Not all sacrifices were sin offerings . |
12 | All agents are eunuch writers . |