Example sentences of "[vb infin] be all " in BNC.

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1 What we should consider are all the alternative ways that a fruit fly can inherit individual switch settings .
2 With this , we can easily flip any even number of edges , which we will see is all that is possible .
3 ‘ He must have been all of 40 , 50 … at least 60 yards out . ’
4 He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow .
5 If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me .
6 Perhaps his initial success should n't have been all that surprising for he comes of good rugby stock .
7 There 's a sort of cosy sentimental glow coming over everyone who 's talking about , it ca n't have been all that wonderful , all the time somehow !
8 Must have been all those flowers .
9 Think it must have been all the cleaning and dusting I did . "
10 Rachaela could imagine Emma would have been all congratulations and the joys of womanhood .
11 I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think .
12 It was n't , it definitely was n't the tablets because i if , if it had done that to you , it would have been all day .
13 ‘ But that noise need n't have been a retch — could have been all sorts of things . ’
14 Frankly , I do not believe that there should have been all this talk about a little bit of majority voting on foreign policy .
15 It is unfortunate that the CACs were seen as a political football and they provide an interesting indication of what might possibly happen were all legal services to be funded from local or central government .
16 The need for a special provision , its likely application , and the interests it would serve were all discussed .
17 Going ahead and it started with annual wage increases because the wage increases that you did get were all about three , four or five percent at the time .
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