Example sentences of "[prep] be all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos their shovel was different to ours , but that were n't any good to us cos that was er , cos what they used to trim grain with , now a grain shovel was made of tin and cos our shovels what they used to feed the boiler with were all steel shovels . |
| 2 | It seems to be all questions this week , and I 've had a friend asking if it is possible to add stain to varnish to change the colour . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not going to be all romances and girls and all that , ’ he says matter-of-factly . |
| 4 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 5 | It has to do , it has to be all bits , that 's what that 's all you do . |
| 6 | It was hard to be all sweetness and light when she was desperately trying to catch up with her own quarry before McKenna did . |
| 7 | ‘ But Bill Mishkin : shouts Howard , ‘ said specifically that it does n't have to be all sex and violence . ’ |
| 8 | We do n't want to be all night do we ? |
| 9 | Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on |
| 10 | He was small for his age , dark , large-eyed — in fact he seemed to be all Diane and almost nothing of his father . |
| 11 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 12 | When the unexpected appears to be all part of the plan |
| 13 | Armani shot down in flames those who thought the empire he founded in 1974 would die with the demise of the business half of his partnership ; he learnt fast and today manages to be all money , all business , without sacrificing the brilliant creative edge which has made him fashion 's greatest superstar for the past decade . |
| 14 | So it 'll have to be all super-duper ! |
| 15 | Clearly made to be all jackrabbit starts and pounce , lions can not sustain high speeds for long . |
| 16 | There 's a lovely great open space , where it used to be all wood , which if you had plenty of money and could have enough gardeners could be made very exciting . ’ |
| 17 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 18 | You going to be all day ? |
| 19 | Thus the modern saloon and hatchback has to be all things to all people . |
| 20 | Politicians have to be all things to all people . |
| 21 | You see the Vox is trying to be all things , but in fact it 's only really good for one thing at a time . ’ |
| 22 | In trying to be all things to all men it became over-complex . ’ |
| 23 | He will have studied human nature and desires to be all things to his parish . |
| 24 | In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people . |
| 25 | Can he explain that contradiction , or is he just a politician running scared of the electorate and trying to be all things to all people ? |
| 26 | The motion itself is a compromise some on my side have said it 's too much of a compromise they 've said you 're tr trying to be all things to all people . |
| 27 | At its worst this results in a sort of tasteless Euro-soup , which by trying to be all things to all men , ends up being nothing to anybody . |
| 28 | He 's trying to be all things to all men is n't he ? |
| 29 | I do n't want to either , Bill , but I must come back on this , I mean Choppy wants all things and wants to be all things to all men . |
| 30 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |