Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun] [be] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the concession of the papal taxes of the clergy to the king was all too clearly to release the king from baronial pressure when his oath to the barons was cancelled and the obdurate archbishop recalled . |
| 2 | Mary Hume-Rothery , for example , stressed that the sexual oppression of poor women brought to light by the acts was all the more reason to give women the vote and extend their educational provision , so that they could exercise formal political power . |
| 3 | The orchestra is severely stretched to maintain any sort of cogent line , and the fantasy of the work is all but lost . |
| 4 | This fine actor , whose appearances on the stage are all too infrequent , is well suited to the part of CS Lewis , committed Christian and seemingly confirmed bachelor . |
| 5 | The difference between the colours is all to do with the distances between the humps and dips . |
| 6 | In November he gave an address at the Mary Institute ; the ghosts of the past were all around him as he spoke of the door into the schoolyard , the corridors , the whisperings of his enclosed childhood world . |
| 7 | The general climate of the times was all too apparent as riots broke out in Spa Fields in London in late 1816 , followed in due course by the March of the Blanketeers , the Pentrich Rebellion in Derbyshire , the Peterloo Massacre and that desperate attempt to kill the entire cabinet known as the Cato Street Conspiracy . |
| 8 | The difficulties of the cruise are all but forgotten by most . |
| 9 | In fact , authoritarian patriarchal relations between the sexes are all too prevalent . |
| 10 | The next day the news of the murder was all over London . |
| 11 | The misery which unemployment inflicts on human lives can not be measured ; but its impact on the Exchequer was all too calculable . |
| 12 | The leg of a litoptern is all but indistinguishable from the leg of a horse , yet the two animals are only distantly related . |
| 13 | He looked to the east and saw the city , the sight of the city was all he was ever allowed . |
| 14 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 15 | A lot of the staff were all right , but they did n't understand . |
| 16 | I agree also that if the writing of the will and the appending of the signature are all one operation , it does not matter whereabouts on the document or when in the course of the writing the signature is appended . |
| 17 | In these circumstances , the conclusions of the Committee were all too predictable . |
| 18 | The Colonel had swiftly appreciated that if he needed to describe Dr Tariq 's sense of humour the backside of a blackcurrant was all he needed , and to spare . |
| 19 | The rich scent of the flowers was all around them . |
| 20 | He said that the difficulty with the bubbles not joining up could be avoided if the bubbles were so big that our region of the universe is all contained inside a single bubble . |
| 21 | The marks of the Treasury were all over my short statement of policy . |