Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] [be] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of cars has increased and the roads are all too often inadequate to take them . |
| 2 | When I get home Mrs Marsh has polished off half the biscuits in the tin and the teapot is all but empty . |
| 3 | And the eggs are all over the place . |
| 4 | And the blossom is all set . |
| 5 | In comparison with fabliaux like that , the misbehaviour of the monk and the wife is all too deliberate and plausible . |
| 6 | Help had been so close — and the disappointment was all the greater for it . |
| 7 | And the piece was all the better for it . |
| 8 | And the world is all too prone to assuming that a scientific solution can work a miracle . |
| 9 | ‘ And the kids are all having such fun together , building sand-castles and swimming in the sea . |
| 10 | The house and the tea were all right . ’ |
| 11 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 12 | The hours expanded in deeper and deeper heat , until the air split and the rain was all but blinding . |
| 13 | Scores of weaker titles have been closed and the survivors are all too often shadows of their former selves . |
| 14 | And the party was all the better for not being spoiled by a strike by lecturers which had been threatened earlier in the week . |
| 15 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 16 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 17 | In Figures 6 and 7 , spatial distance represents genetic distance , but the scaling is all distorted . |
| 18 | The words meant nothing to Franco but the situation was all too familiar . |
| 19 | But the director was all for it , too , and as Kenneth pointed out , we did n't wait between talking naturally in our private conversations . |
| 20 | But the discomfort was all worth it . |
| 21 | But the show was all for nothing : there were no punters out there , except for a scattering of people , hunched into anoraks , hurrying home to get out of the persistent drizzle . |
| 22 | But the Barbarians were all right , something to be remembered when you espy pot-bellied , spikey-haired British youth this Friday . |