Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] being 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 Finally , a worthwhile person is always coherent , in the sense of being all of a piece .
4 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 . , , .
5 I start to think for some reason about the idea of being all right .
6 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 .
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