Example sentences of "[was/were] all [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people believed that such low molecular weight products were all one could hope for from ethylene . |
| 2 | The Alteceans wheezed moistly at her , waving their paws at their mounds of surplus respirators and dismantled heat-exchangers as if these treasures were all one could possibly require in life . |
| 3 | But they were all she would accept . ’ |
| 4 | Mundane soap and a tiny towel were all I could fault . |
| 5 | He would be at his mother 's and Catherine would be there too and they would be talking about her , that was all they would talk about . |
| 6 | That was all they could do . |
| 7 | Other passengers were queueing at the check-point , most of them looking back as if that glimpse was all they could carry with them to their destinations . |
| 8 | While , understandably , this mild recommendation was all they could make in the circumstances , there is no disguising the fact that , for the next five years at least , non-advanced further education in Wales badly needs the infusion of more resources . |
| 9 | ‘ It was too late to postpone the wedding , I suppose ? ’ said Clare , thinking that in reason this was all they could have done . |
| 10 | Far from not knowing what she was doing her staff discovered it was all they could do to keep up with her . |
| 11 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 12 | But a 25th minute penalty from Fry was all they could manage in scoring terms . |
| 13 | did n't , we do n't know why ’ was all they could offer . |
| 14 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 15 | It will be a whole lot clearer to you then , but it 's there basically because it was asked for , it 's inadequate because that was all they could do on the day , having been instructed to provide it . |
| 16 | Drinks and dinner , that was all they 'd be sharing . |
| 17 | It was all we could do to avoid laughing out loud . |
| 18 | It was all we could see . |
| 19 | ‘ We are free , we are free , ’ was all we could say . |
| 20 | That was all we could get out of Tex . |
| 21 | but er it was all it could do to do sixty . |
| 22 | So it was all you wo n't find it in here because as erm Robin said , the office staff are there , that 'll be the central position where everything 's happening and they will make sure that the area 's clear . |
| 23 | So if you were unemployed in Mississippi and you were black , you had trouble getting the fifty dollars to start with but that was all you 'd get , but if you went to New York you get five hundred dollars , so what would you do ? |
| 24 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 25 | It was all you could get , at Conservative Research Department . |
| 26 | ‘ That was all you could establish ? ’ |
| 27 | It was all you could do . |
| 28 | These contained a substance called Spread , and , indeed , that was all you could do with it . |
| 29 | That was all you could hear . |
| 30 | Well okay bu but in that sense are you saying that the learning experience was such that the peasant was so conservative and reactionary and so was all you could do ? |