Example sentences of "be all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The murals of Diego Rivera for the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City are admitted by the critic Antonio Rodriguez not to be all of an equally high standard , ‘ but what poet could keep up the same lyrical flow for a thousand verses ? |
| 2 | Today , I 've put in a runner bean — it must be all of twenty inches long — but I do n't grow them specially . |
| 3 | If something or somebody seems to be all the go , it takes a determined editor to ignore it even if he thinks it wildly over-rated . |
| 4 | I had the Sta Prest and I the short hair , and every party you went to it would be all Tamla and Blue Beat and ska . |
| 5 | It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast . |
| 6 | As far as one can assess the merit of Levin 's text in relation to its subject , it seems somewhat implausible that Debord can be all the things for which he is proclaimed . |
| 7 | Thus the modern saloon and hatchback has to be all things to all people . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He wants to be all you could ever need . |
| 10 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 11 | In the 1760s the Lake District with its rugged and dramatic scenery began to be all the rage with artists of all sorts , and in their wake , as usual , the dilettanti rich followed limply behind , thinking there must be something in this search for the sublime through unadulterated nature . |
| 12 | One lab , one set of engineers and a worldwide sales force would seem to be all that is needed if it is true that companies and markets are becoming more global . |
| 13 | This will not be all the UN is called on to do . |
| 14 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 15 | And Lee would most likely be all that time in Jubilee Wood , him and Caspar . |
| 16 | Sanders ca n't be all that interested in the Plan if he takes a few days vacation rather than give the presentation . |
| 17 | Countdown to the ban … fading memories of smokey summers and pictures like this will soon be all that 's left to remind growers of straw burning . |
| 18 | Dorothea 's hips must be all of forty-four inches and Isabel , with that straight figure , Isabel dressed so dully and her face was colourless . |
| 19 | Then Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father , and God will be all in all . |
| 20 | When a wife becomes a widow , for example , there will be all sorts of social changes . |
| 21 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 22 | He looked bewildered , but the whole afternoon must have seemed so unbelievable to him that hopping into a boat would seem to be all of a piece . |
| 23 | Chasing a massive 287 for six , which included a powerful 122 off only 113 balls from Phil Simmons , South Africa succumbed to some accurate bowling to be all out for 180 in the 43rd over to give West Indies victory by 107 runs . |
| 24 | Working from these definitions , it seemed that secondary prevention included two very different situations , that is , early identification of comparatively mild problems with a hopeful outcome , and more serious problems involving risk , in which amelioration and containment might be all that could be achieved . |
| 25 | ‘ A single ploughing may be all that is needed to negate five years of land use control , and the nitrate locked in the root system could be irretrievably lost , ’ said the Rivers Authority . |
| 26 | Chicken weed ( Stellaria media ) , All Hail or siderites ( This may be All Heal ( see earlier ) or may be Galeopsis tetrahit ) , Sea Pinck ( Armeria maritima ) , and Tormentil ( Potentilla erecta ) . |
| 27 | The beneficence of the Sun : an occasional visit to a sun-warmed rock may be all a lizard needs to keep itself warm . |
| 28 | Politicians have to be all things to all people . |
| 29 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 30 | There may be all sorts of social and economic difficulties affecting the family of which the school is unaware . |