Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [be] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Peter 's little daughter sings an excruciating Leslie Bricusse lyric about being all alone , there will be many a dry eye-patch in the house . |
| 2 | But all this brings me to the ‘ Ongoing Debate ’ of the letters page and those comments of Naomi Wolf about variety and the impossibility of being all things to all women . |
| 3 | His imaginary opponent is visualized by the practitioner to be all around him . |
| 4 | The air is heavy enough for the ambiguities to be all in the skill of the players . |
| 5 | After that , everything changed and everything that had seemed to Dot to be all right disappeared . |
| 6 | But you also find disappointing examples of companies which still perceive marketing to be all to do with promotion and little to do with profits . |
| 7 | If anything , it provided some pleasant surprises — about , for instance , the ability of large crowds to demonstrate peacefully , and the ability of Hong Kong-financed factories in southern China to be all but unaffected by turmoil in Peking . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't expect fried eggs to be all tidy . |
| 9 | Finally , a worthwhile person is always coherent , in the sense of being all of a piece . |
| 10 | The doors are tough and durable , and they require almost no maintenance , a quick wash down being all that is required to restore them to pristine condition . , , . |
| 11 | I start to think for some reason about the idea of being all right . |
| 12 | Indeed , were there more than a handful of black presenters on TV , he would n't be burdened with the impossible task of being all things to all black people . |