Example sentences of "[be] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 2 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
| 3 | It must have been all over in a few seconds . |
| 4 | In its attempt to unite the worlds of city and savage , Sweeney Agonistes had been all too clearly founded on the fertility rite as presented by Comford 's investigation . |
| 5 | Demant 's own chapter would have been all the more attractive to Eliot because of its wide-ranging view which combined the primitive and the sophisticated . |
| 6 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 7 | ‘ You would have been all right in the end . |
| 8 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 9 | Beautifully played by Gidon Kremer , it would have been all the more welcome if , being the sort of work which does n't invite applause , it had n't been so closely associated with Offertorium as to seem to merge into it . |
| 10 | As Liverpool have been all Greek to most First Division clubs for a decade , Swansea 's chances do not seem that brilliant , but … and that ‘ but ’ is the delight of the FA Cup . |
| 11 | Took him hours to clean it up and , since then , the pitch and tone have been all askew . |
| 12 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 13 | IT HAS been all too typically British . |
| 14 | In practice the relationship between the two has been all too cosy . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't be so flamin' cheeky , ’ said Otley , ‘ we 've been all over the place looking for you . ’ |
| 16 | Before coming to City Road about six weeks before , the pair had been all over — Wales , Somerset , Kent , up north . |
| 17 | Service has been all on-farm in the workshops of owners JAPE Wright , Brettenham , Thetford . |
| 18 | Though , since the day the letter came , Kathleen 's nonsense had been all unspoken . |
| 19 | ‘ No , I 've been all over the North , so I 'm leaving it this time . ’ |
| 20 | Most of my friends have n't been outside Australia , let alone been all over the world . |
| 21 | It had been all she could do , as she wrote to Ellen : |
| 22 | England A ( 456–7 dec ) drew with Essex ( 317–8 dec ) A RARE century from Derek Pringle provided some spice at the very death in an opening to the season which had been all but strangled at birth by the bad weather . |
| 23 | It would have been all over very quickly . ’ |
| 24 | If the kisses which she [ Princess Amalia at Aachen ] gave to my children , and to Wolfgang especially , had been all new louis d'or , we should be quite happy ; but neither the innkeeper nor the postmaster are paid in kisses … |
| 25 | This popularity has not been all to the good , but having said that , the Rottweiler has now made friends who are concerned with his welfare . |
| 26 | His first publication , a humorous but unsophisticated story entitled ‘ How I built myself a house ’ , published in Chambers 's Journal in March 1865 , was originally written for the amusement of colleagues during afternoons which appear to have been all too idle . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been all right as a weed for years . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , if you do , do you think any of them would have signed this form if it had not been all in order and above board ? ’ |
| 29 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 30 | To defend one ‘ faith ’ is to deny another , and so the stake must have been all too easy a rendezvous for anyone who tried to maintain their integrity . |