Example sentences of "[be] all [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been all too easy for the residents ' views to weigh lightly compared to the supposedly more objective professional assessments but , avoiding this pitfall , the author looked for ways of tapping the experiences of the residents themselves and sought to complement these with staff assessments of social and psychiatric functioning . |
| 2 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
| 3 | Kate had been all too aware of the stiffening in the figure next to her , even if he had ignored the girl , apart from an acknowledging , casual smile in her direction . |
| 4 | I am all too conscious of the competing claims of some of the greatest Brucknerians when assessing this CD . |
| 5 | The complicated problems surrounding the temperature management of prepared food for volume consumption are all too apparent by the time you get your meal on the plate and are able to eat it in comfort . |
| 6 | Those ‘ indestructible barriers ’ which in the Clark lectures he saw as characterizing post-Cartesian society are all too apparent in The Waste Land where in Bradley 's words , quoted by Eliot , ‘ regarded as an existence which appears in a soul , the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul ’ . |
| 7 | The false flavours of dye and chemical smoke are all too perceptible in the finished product . |
| 8 | We are all too familiar with the throbbing ache of a boil or carbuncle on the neck . |
| 9 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 10 | We are all too familiar with the sad spectacle of seeing overcrowded , listless goldfish , thoroughly out of condition , if not actually diseased , being offered for sale to the unsuspecting public . |
| 11 | As the outcome bears no relation to either an efficient market or the declared aims of government policy , it sets up pressures for those who feel injured to seek political solutions , which mean greater government intervention and greater inefficiency — a treadmill with which I regret to say we are all too familiar in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Neighbourhood police are all too aware of the risk : |
| 13 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |
| 14 | Compile and index The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme , but in the interests of other users , an index will be a necessary guide to the concepts used and their location within the scheme . |
| 15 | You 're not quite as clever as you think and your shortcomings will be all too apparent to a switched-on youngster . |
| 16 | It can be all too easy for a severely visually handicapped pupil to be physically inactive and desk-bound , or dependent on the adult helper . |
| 17 | Without this , it can be all too easy for the client to gain comfort and reassurance from a warm , accepting counsellor without making any progress in resolving his difficulties . |
| 18 | It can otherwise be all too easy for the blind child to be pushed and pulled about . |
| 19 | Governing bodies will be all too aware of the danger that the image presented by their pupils may be negative rather than positive and do their best to see that high standards of behaviour are maintained in and out of school . |
| 20 | Going round the gallery , I met Viscount and Viscountess Slim , and the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough , who were all most interested in the paintings . |
| 21 | Speculation about whether the Assassin troops believed that their experiences in the Alamut gardens fitted out as Paradise were really a dream , or whether the gardens ' compliant slaves were all too real in the flesh is thus academic . |
| 22 | Merymose had asked the questions of fact , at a time when they were all too stunned by the event to react other than practically . |
| 23 | With this episode commenced perhaps the decline of the Stour Valley woollen industry , the symptoms of which were all too obvious by the middle of the century . |
| 24 | Educated Protestants were all too aware of the popular ignorance of the basics of theology . |
| 25 | They were all too aware of the renewed public campaign for further film censorship but their only response to that was to deplore Hollywood 's all too obviously hasty attempt to wrap its gangster and other city films up in some kind of moral message . |
| 26 | The Payne Fund had sponsored nine investigations in the period between 1929 and 1933 and these observers were all too aware of the impact of the new sociological films and the dangers inherent in further progress in that direction . |
| 27 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 28 | ‘ I believe that it is quite wrong that you should refuse this reasonable request and I regret to say that your attitude is all too typical of the secretive nature of British government , which cries out for reform . ’ |
| 29 | When cultural and economic identity are lacking it is all too easy for a capitalist system to ‘ sell ’ culture issues and values quite aggressively . |
| 30 | It is all too easy for a department to obtain research money ( for example , from the pharmaceutical industry ) and then to employ a young doctor to perform substandard research . |