Example sentences of "be [prep] all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been off all winter , we are now on the long road back to full fitness , and my main worry , having recently started trotting , is finding somewhere where the going is n't too hard . |
| 2 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
| 3 | The percentages shown are for all Cambridge University/WEA Tutorial Classes which included some arranged beyond the Eastern District , e.g. Nuneaton and Rugby . |
| 4 | I imagined that , having got what you 've been after all week , you 'd be quite happy to agree … ’ |
| 5 | Furthermore , to the extent that a tendency has developed to disbelieve policemen , who are after all officers of the law , it marks a serious deterioration in the quality of the administration of justice . |
| 6 | There are after all occasions when words do very well on their own . |
| 7 | The percentages are of all households in each ethnic group with dependent children under the age of 19 . |
| 8 | The Crime Survey is a victimisation study and its main conclusion is one that has been noted , in a less systematic way , many times before : working-class crime is a problem , and it is a problem for the working class , since they are its principal victims , as they are of all types of crime : |
| 9 | The jewels of men are geometrical , but the jewels of the sea are of all shapes and they are jewels of a subtler quality of thought . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're like all squaddies . |
| 11 | " We 're like all rabbits — happiest in a crowd . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're like all children . |
| 13 | Throughout history you come across stacks of politicians who would rather let any number of people suffer than admit to one lousy mistake of their own — they 're in all parties , not just our current lot . ’ |
| 14 | Now if you want to decrease the frequency , say at evenings , and you wanted a twenty minute service , you can see that you 're in all kinds of muddle . |
| 15 | The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook — and , I suspect , many other Opposition Members — are against all deterrent sentences . |
| 16 | Some teachers and psychologists are against all study which makes language , in Cazden 's term , ‘ opaque ’ ( Cazden , 1974 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
| 18 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 19 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 20 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 21 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 22 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 23 | So you been in all day ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 25 | Because we 're talking to a lot of professional people who are from all Scots you name it they 're from it . |
| 26 | The two main variants of this approach are , first , that the requirement of consideration restricts voluntary obligations to those created by an agreement establishing an exchange relation because such agreements are in all probability moments of careful deliberation ; and secondly , consideration functions like a formality , such as notorization or a seal , in order to ensure the seriousness of the promise . |
| 27 | Executives who get distracted with love affairs , golfing weekends and nightly entertainment under pretence of business are in all probability not Profitbosses . |
| 28 | Indeed , statistics reveal just how remarkably consistent European Tour players are in all areas of the game . |
| 29 | Nor is it quite certain that the ordinary law Courts are in all cases the best body for adjudicating upon the offences or the errors of civil servants . |
| 30 | Sensory setae ( see p. 125 ) are in all cases connected with the nervous system . |