Example sentences of "all [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that it takes is a little push , some minor inconvenience , a trifling price to pay for faith , some obligation or embarrassment involved in being a Christian , and suddenly a trail of doubts bubbles to the surface : ‘ Maybe after all … |
| 2 | I knew I had all that it takes ; the others told me . ’ |
| 3 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 4 | Does he realise that what the country now needs from him is hope , but all that it gets is complacency ; that what the country needs from him is leadership , but all that it gets from him is excuses ; that what the country now needs is a Government who will act , but what it has is a Government paralysed by the election who dodge the issues , duck the realities and do nothing ? |
| 5 | Very often the history of an object is not known at all and there may be reason to believe that it is not all that it purports to be . |
| 6 | The other , instinctively realizing the danger , swiftly retreats in a reflex movement of social and theological withdrawal , but all that it does from then on is marked by a deepening social and intellectual insecurity . |
| 7 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 8 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 9 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure he understands all that it involves . |
| 11 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 12 | But it would have been very different to make him a coach this winter , with all that it entails . ’ |
| 13 | All that it demonstrates , through a three-hours-seeming 75 minutes , is that counter-stereotypes tend to harden into stereotypes in their turn . |
| 14 | ‘ The book achieves all that it claims — another first in modern language teaching . ’ |
| 15 | As you probably know , even the cleanest looking carpet is not all that it appears . |
| 16 | I am still 100 per cent behind Credit Management and all that it stands for . |
| 17 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 18 | And all that it contains |
| 19 | Kermode thinks that this process , with all that it implies , is a fact of life , which has to be lived with , whatever we think of it . |
| 20 | One planning officer commented that ‘ probably no planning circular and all that it implies has ever been so popular with the public . |
| 21 | Thus , one predator can learn to avoid brightly coloured individuals without killing all that it encounters . |
| 22 | All that 's all that it needs you know , for him to alter his attitude . |
| 23 | It does n't need to be all , all that it needs t to do is to just demonstrate . |
| 24 | MISLEADING : Clydesdale 's offer is n't all that it seems |
| 25 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 26 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 27 | If you simply put up but people still have to use their cars to get from A to B you 're not actually improving the environment at all and it seems that adding added habits habits habits er it it seems to me that proposals that we have represented and which create improvement in a number of areas or reduce the cut in a number of areas will actually produce a much more balanced programme for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 28 | This was required by the SIB in order to protect customers of smaller firms , which might need to rely on the larger firm with or through whom they are dealing ( although it is doubtful that a small securities firm should trade in complicated derivatives at all if it does not have the necessary expertise ) . |
| 29 | It will do no good at all if it leaves you fuming internally for the rest of the day . |
| 30 | I can not claim to have read it all but it seems massively comprehensive , and certainly useful for libraries . |