Example sentences of "of all be that " in BNC.

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1 The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all .
2 He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine .
3 The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 .
4 Most likely of all is that we partially trust one another , and each play some mixed sequence of COOPERATE and DEFECT , ending up with some intermediate sum of money .
5 Perhaps the best protected hole of all is that built by the female trap-door spider .
6 And I think the most disgusting thing of all is that Alan Sillitoe does n't show that he 's disgusted by his young man .
7 The saddest thing of all is that it is hard to see how a different outcome was ever possible .
8 Many systems and many faces may have changed over the last year or two and I do n't imagine you would believe me if I said that none of these changes had saddened me but , in a changing market-place , the basics have n't changed and the most basic precept of all is that there are no healthy banks where there are no health customers to sustain them .
9 What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in .
10 The most damning fact of all is that Seb had been drinking .
11 The best news of all is that you pay remarkably little for all this bounty .
12 Most significant news of all is that we 've just won the highly respected Dataquest Customer Satisfaction Poll against competition from the other best manufacturing names in the industry .
13 Biddlecombe 's new beat is around the horse sales … his year 's of racing expertise is being harnessed at last … and the best news of all is that he may soon be back in the saddle
14 As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself .
15 The biggest problem of all is that we ca n't look forward and that a lot of the problems , being problems are happening now , and happened since the er the first of January that should of happened they should of happened in th , in th , in the er at least the three months before the end of last year , if not more !
16 And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ .
17 The worst thing of all was that no one was talking .
18 What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski .
19 And the bitterest irony of all was that he himself was a victim .
20 Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) .
21 Such great open-air markets can be seen at Northampton , Newark and Leicester , for example , and most notable of all was that at Nottingham , where the vast triangular market place covers five-and-a-half acres and was once even larger .
22 What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion .
23 But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth .
24 What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’
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