Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] all the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spectacle of the café-concert was above all the home of disorder , and particularly of the disruption of the orderly bourgeois habitus . |
| 2 | If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . |
| 3 | The Scottish Cycling Council , which is made up of rep 's from all the DA 's ( and others ) , is quite deeply involved in the debate on access to the countryside . |
| 4 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 5 | And I 'd like art teacher 's in all the school 's all around , not just Harlow but Hoddesdon Hertford all around Epping to be asked I 'd like artists to be asked from all around erm Essex has a directory of artists Eastern Arts has a directory of artists , I think you could probably find quite a lot of people . |
| 6 | This small daily job is worth all the effort . |
| 7 | The first group contains a wave singly scattered by the adatom , denoted as , and all the waves doubly scattered first by the adatom and then by a substrate atom , denoted as as , i , where i is a substrate atom near the adatom , and the summation is over all the doubly scattered waves with sufficient large amplitudes . |
| 8 | The Americans say they are surprised at the response because they do n't think the difference of opinion is worth all the fuss it is causing . |
| 9 | That little room 's for all the jumble sale of course ! |
| 10 | is , there was a big blanket over the door then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you , and I sat there and the stairs come down , the open stairs come into the room and here is an old brick fire place |
| 11 | Art is after all the subject of attention for both critic and historian , even though the functions and methods of the two sorts of writer have drawn apart . |
| 12 | I suppose the television 's on all the time here . ’ |
| 13 | And since literacy was a prime requirement , type-setting was of all the manual trades the nearest to teaching , governessing and clerking : traditionally the only hopes for educated girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 14 | ‘ The success of the operation was worth all the suffering ’ |
| 15 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 16 | The spiritual plane is for all the great religions inseparable from the physical and psychological ways in which it manifests itself and becomes known by us , but yet it is truly distinguishable . |
| 17 | But what held the audience 's rapt attention from beginning to end was above all the genius of Verdi himself and the superlative grandeur of his music . |
| 18 | The heart is above all the place of encounter between a human being and God . |
| 19 | One correspondent , however , sees little evidence today of an agreed understanding of what constitutes monastic music or even that the music of the monastic tradition is above all the vehicle for its prayer . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister is above all the Queen 's First Minister . |
| 21 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 22 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 23 | Anyway that 's all been sorted out and that 's what the problem was with all the work permit riders , coming down in you know , in points . |
| 24 | It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts . |
| 25 | The Crown 's interest was above all the defence of the land rather than of villagers ' property rights . |