Example sentences of "[is] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the very energy spent in its realisation , his accomplishment is all the more intense in its expression . |
| 2 | But he is all right when you get to know him . |
| 3 | Such redevelopment is often unnecessary and detrimental ; the end product of such schemes is all too often a sham-historical parody , re-creating an idealised , sanitised Britain that never actually existed . |
| 4 | A common cop-out is to say this is all too difficult so I 'm going to get my head down and forget about it . |
| 5 | This is all going to cut you off from London a bit , but I do n't see that there 's really any other way at the moment . ’ |
| 6 | Furthermore , it is all too easy for both people to decide to let go at the same moment , so that no one is left holding a wing-tip . |
| 7 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 8 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 9 | ‘ To avoid the strath — they must know it is all ours. , ‘ Then who is the big-wig ? |
| 10 | My garden is all the more attractive because the gardens on either side are so rampant and untended : places where moss covers the paths , the grass is yellow and long and the stalks of sycamore seedlings have red , fungoid lumps . |
| 11 | This is because a lack of technical expertise in a Petipa variation danced in a ‘ tutu ’ is all too obvious , whilst its lack in modern works usually goes unnoticed . |
| 12 | Politics has very little to do with issues ; it is all to do with the personal vanities and ambitions of politicians . |
| 13 | This might seem naive but it is all too possible . |
| 14 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 15 | For us , that is all right ; our pain is physical . |
| 16 | With a visit from a Government safety inspector likely only once in five years , the safety/cost conflict is all too easily settled by sacrificing safety to the god of profit . |
| 17 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 18 | While one tale is all doomed romantic passion , the other portrays an unglamorous urge to stay alive . |
| 19 | Perhaps this is all too heavy for you ? ’ |
| 20 | Cuddly Saddam Iraq is not a country one normally sees being defended , so it is all the more intriguing to read a glowing account of this thuggish regime by Tony Marlow , the right-wing Tory MP for Northampton North . |
| 21 | ‘ It is all right for us , it is the younger generation I feel sorry for , ’ a Devonshire councillor told her companion . |
| 22 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |
| 23 | As we discuss the changing role of the traditional high-street off-licence , it is all too plain that none of the first six customers have browsed or bought wine or done what the market research says they should be doing . |
| 24 | The legacy is all too clear . |
| 25 | Pat finished his cigarette and , looking at me as he rose to his feet , said , ‘ Piper , I believe it is all going to happen today . |
| 26 | It was tiny but a reminder that there are still poisonous snakes in the region — a fact which is all too easy to forget . |
| 27 | Like any other business , it is all to do with contacts and getting introductions . |
| 28 | As dialect , it is all the more vulnerable to disintegration and collapse . |
| 29 | And , of the instinctual components necessarily repressed and sublimated in the service of culture , the coprophilic is one of the most significant , says Freud : ‘ the excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual ; the position of the genitals — inter urinas et faeces — remains the decisive and unchangeable factor ’ ( vii . |
| 30 | In the shadow of that history there is all the more to appreciate about the way progressive movements in our time have turned things around , and begun positively to identify the difference of the other : ‘ the emphasis on discontinuity , the celebration of difference and heterogeneity , and the assertion of plurality as opposed to reductive unities — these ideas have animated almost an entire generation of literary and cultural critics ’ ( Mohanty , ‘ Us and Them ’ , 56 — 7 ) . |