Example sentences of "what be [prep] all " in BNC.

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1 You think of all the lights what are on all them electric bills !
2 Erm we 've feel we 've gone as far as it 's practical to go to meet erm what are after all the genuine needs of genuine needs of our own population .
3 It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon .
4 The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele .
5 ‘ OK , so what did you do and why and how , and what 's with all this secrecy ? ’
6 What 's with all this walking ? "
7 " What 's with all this no thanks ?
8 What 's with all this excellency business , chief ? ’
9 It could just be that you 're the person in your family who knows what 's on all those video tapes that nobody 's labelled up .
10 What 's behind all those questions the experts ask when your pregnant ?
11 Now I think this is what 's behind all this actually .
12 " What 's in all those packages ? "
13 what 's in all the parts there ?
14 The men do what is to all intents a twenty-four-hour shift seven days a week .
15 It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’
16 No , I 'm trying to say what is behind all this if you really think of it ?
17 If you go into a pub today and buy a pint of beer , a coke , a low alcohol lager and a packet of crisps , you have a right to know what is in all those products except the beer .
18 Hard by to the south of the lower lake is the huge upstanding molar of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau , grimly handsome with , on its eastern slopes , what is by all accounts one of the Pyrenees ' largest populations of izard .
19 As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community .
20 But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery .
21 ‘ It seems unfair that a few farmers should have to carry the cost of the consequences of what is after all a national policy .
22 There are hundreds of cases of men who took the most drastic and precarious actions to rid themselves of , what is after all , a minor irritant .
23 It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves .
24 I have tried , without , I hope , ignoring economic and social factors , not to let them obliterate what is after all the key to any historical situation — the men who thought or acted in this way or that . ’
25 ‘ Correctly pricing the gas at its fully competitive worth ensures that what is after all a scarce and valuable natural resource is rightly conserved by end users .
26 What do you think the position of the transport secretary would be in the House of Commons if he was forced to drop what is after all a very major plank of his programme ?
27 And I think that would take the issue out of the sort of Party dogfight , and let the electorate really decide , and what is after all one of the most important issues facing a democracy .
28 Mandela had what was by all accounts a successful meeting with the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on July 4 , describing her afterwards as an " enemy of apartheid " .
29 But you will perhaps understand that there was a natural tendency on my part , in asking what was after all a generous favour from my employer , to hint that there was a good professional motive behind my request .
30 Although the subject was never directly mentioned , it was subtly intimated in various ways that I was beholden to the Parsons for what was after all a free holiday , and was therefore expected to do rather more than my bit when it came to chauffeuring , chaperoning , shopping and suchlike chores .
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