Example sentences of "is all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Templeton went on to explain how employing women played havoc with this arrangement : When the females get their work to set up , the whole of what we term the " fat " is taken out , that is all the space is taken out and they simply get close matter to set , and they get paid for that . |
| 2 | After the shoot the agency team will see " rushes " , that is all the film that was shot . |
| 3 | Well , I did it alone , just with the help of Crossroads , and the district nurse in , in the mornings , five days a week and really that is all the help I had , except that I get domestic staff myself , and any help that I need , I have to pay for . |
| 4 | If we are referring to a mass of matter we can say that it is the same so long as it consists of the same particles , whereas if we are referring to a living body this need not be so : ‘ a colt grown up to a horse , sometimes fat , sometimes lean , is all the while the same horse : though … there may be a manifest change of the parts . ’ |
| 5 | The observer pegs one end of a string of length r to a fixed point O and then makes a circuit round O so that the string is all the while fully stretched , but of course confined to lie in the surface . |
| 6 | Let us note the colour of the flower — yellow — is all the flower the same yellow ? |
| 7 | Maybe the week before Is all the stuff coming here this time though |
| 8 | ‘ That is all the description we can have until we can have until we can speak to Mrs Hardy further . ’ |
| 9 | Gone is all the cynicism of old , now she 's as radical , real and funny as Lenny Bruce — the godfather of alternative comedy . |
| 10 | Gone is all the cynicism of old , now she 's as radical , real and funny as Lenny Bruce — the godfather of alternative comedy . |
| 11 | This is all the ice creams . |
| 12 | ‘ Finding another post is all the plan I have , ma'am . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Eight acres is all the council needs — we 'd build the club and manage it both as pay and play and as a private club . |
| 14 | ‘ That watch belonged to a nobleman , my father , and is all the inheritance I have . ’ |
| 15 | A 61-year-old French elephant is all the rage : Babar is back . |
| 16 | City Diary : FT chief 's home is all the rage |
| 17 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 18 | Fiendishly clever computer trading of financial instruments using hideously complex algorithms is all the rage on Wall Street and increasingly in Tokyo , and now researchers at the London Parallel Applications Centre , based at London 's Queen Mary & Westfield College , are developing special library tools for financial modelling with the support of Digital Equipment Co Ltd and Oxford mathematical library supplier Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd , or NAG . |
| 19 | Lingerie that doubles as clothing is all the rage : a bustier under a suit ; a bra as a bikini . |
| 20 | Tapestry is all the rage at the moment , and experienced needlewomen and nervous novices alike will love Primavera 's new range of fruit and flower tapestry kits . |
| 21 | And there is all the critique we need of the notion of empire . |
| 22 | That is all the coach holds . " |
| 23 | Subject : Where is all the money going ? |
| 24 | Inorganic chemistry is all the rest . |
| 25 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 26 | For some it is all the singing they do , other than the occasional hymn or Mass setting . |
| 27 | And this , according to Brian Baxter , is all the work of Terence Davies , a ‘ potentially great artist ’ who has ‘ evoked memories and then shaped them , as a painter or poet distills such images , into a coherent whole ( Films and Filming , October 1988 ) . |
| 28 | my Lord all that follows now is that question costs in this my Lord there is no doubt that er this is the painful experience for both the plaintiffs and of course for doctor who is unrepresented and therefore must inevitably feel rather isolated in this matter erm , however in my there is no reason to er depart from the usual principal of the costs which should follow the event and of course we know as it the loss on the subsidiary appeal and so I do n't press the point on that cos the reality as you 've already probably anticipated is all the work has been done erm on this appeal the subsidiary appeal I ask , I do n't ask for costs on that , in my submission it should be both sides bear their own costs on that , the reason I say that is that there was no , there was no cross appearing in respect on it in effect , cos after all , all you were doing was er trying to get the same as the other side if we lost , so no worm of can of beans can be done by doctor I had one parallel in my whole skeleton on that , er , but we have substantially succeeded on the main issue and so I , I would ask that costs in favour of the plaintiffs on , on that and here and indeed below . |
| 29 | Much of the cargo trade is now handled as roll on-roll off , as is all the passenger trade . |
| 30 | This is all the apparatus that goes up to drive it . |