Example sentences of "[prep] be all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all this brings me to the ‘ Ongoing Debate ’ of the letters page and those comments of Naomi Wolf about variety and the impossibility of being all things to all women . |
| 2 | Indeed , were there more than a handful of black presenters on TV , he would n't be burdened with the impossible task of being all things to all black people . |
| 3 | Finally , a worthwhile person is always coherent , in the sense of being all of a piece . |
| 4 | Neither was there any reference to Iraq , and it seems from the wording of one report on the proceedings , to the effect that ‘ the UN implicitly criticizes Iran ’ , that here was a resolution with human characteristics , one capable of being all things to all men . |
| 5 | The speed was intense , but it was a feeling of being every shape and object within view ; of being all of creation at once . |
| 6 | I start to think for some reason about the idea of being all right . |
| 7 | It 's like being all alone in our own world , Ruth thought . |
| 8 | After all , apart from being all of thirty-two , she was the wife of one of the editors and no woman was worth getting into trouble for . |
| 9 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 10 | Differs from White Stork most notably in being all black except for white underparts . |
| 11 | Now , are you sure you 're going to be all right ? ’ |
| 12 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's going to be all right now , ’ I told her . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's going to be all right . ’ |
| 15 | They would n't know that his trip had been sponsored by the Socialist Labor Party of North America and his time , if he stuck to his commitments , was to be all booked up . |
| 16 | If anything , it provided some pleasant surprises — about , for instance , the ability of large crowds to demonstrate peacefully , and the ability of Hong Kong-financed factories in southern China to be all but unaffected by turmoil in Peking . |
| 17 | I had a look at the bagpipes before pulling the rucksack onto my back , they seemed to be all right — wonder when I 'll play them again ? |
| 18 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 19 | He is not even convinced that the head of a financial institution needs to be all that numerate . |
| 20 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 21 | Marie 's gone to Scotland to look after her baby , so everything 's going to be all different and Mr Jackson 's going to look after me . |
| 22 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 23 | It 's going to be all right . |
| 24 | From now on everything 's going to be all right . |
| 25 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |
| 26 | After that , everything changed and everything that had seemed to Dot to be all right disappeared . |
| 27 | All the way home I was so happy ; everything had been worth while , everything was going to be all right . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's going to be all right ! |
| 29 | It would seem to be all over . |
| 30 | I do n't believe you have to be all that indulgent . |