Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The negotiation of the contractual terms of such relationships is all too often regarded as a contest in which the supplier attempts to exclude the maximum possible liability to the customer , and the customer to impose the maximum possible liability on the supplier ; the only rules are those imposed by the Unfair Contract Terms Act , and the contest is finally decided by the relative bargaining power of the two parties . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who likes fishing and books is all right with me . ’ |
| 3 | The experience of some players becoming emotionally spent in such circumstances is all too fresh from Derek White 's swansong at Cardiff last year — a performance which Scotland captain Gavin Hastings rated as one of the poorest in which he had been involved . |
| 4 | The difference between the colours is all to do with the distances between the humps and dips . |
| 5 | Setting prices in relation to costs is all right as long as the latter are under control , but here they clearly are n't : it is obvious that if Marie 's back is turned , food either gets wasted or goes missing . |
| 6 | Ramped access to public buildings is all but unknown . |
| 7 | ‘ Jitters is all right . |
| 8 | The coincidence between the ordinary predicative and clausal positions is all the more striking in that the inherently restrictive adjectives can not be so used in predicate qualifying position ( where restriction for identification is not appropriate ) ; this is why there is a further contrast between ( 57 ) and ( 59 ) , even though the adjective is one of this inherently restrictive group in both cases , and despite the fact that the property THIRD is certainly compatible in itself with the noun ox : ( 57 ) she considers the Admiral ( to be ) the worst ( e.g. of the village 's gardeners ) ( 58 ) she declared the squire ( to be ) the lazy ( 59 ) the revellers had eaten the ox the third ( 60 ) they ate their steaks well done Example ( 60 ) shows that eat can support predicate qualifiers , so that incompatibility between the verb and the construction can not be given as a reason for the ungrammaticality of ( 59 ) . |
| 9 | But there , the distance between the humps and dips is all to do with the pitch of the note-the note that we hear . |
| 10 | Poisoning Africans is all right , appears to be the message from the Irish Government . |
| 11 | That this cohesiveness has persisted in the face of constant harassment , phone-calls , malicious rumours about YCCC members , threats of violence , and the attempted shooting of group members is all the more remarkable . |
| 12 | ‘ It ’ s them doctors is all to blame . |
| 13 | The cause of the problem with Mirror Group pensioners is all too clear ; There appears to have been a massive fraud , perpetuated under the very eyes of the trustees . |
| 14 | On the other hand , an excess of isolated teeth is all the more unlikely to be due to sampling error , and so excess is considered to be significant and to indicate preferential destruction of mandibles and maxillae . |
| 15 | The force of such metaphors is all the greater because of the unconscious effect which racist discourse itself exerts . |
| 16 | Such redevelopment is often unnecessary and detrimental ; the end product of such schemes is all too often a sham-historical parody , re-creating an idealised , sanitised Britain that never actually existed . |
| 17 | In the evolution game , whether the computer version or the real thing , the player ( or observer ) obtains the same feeling of wandering metaphorically through a labyrinth of branching passages , but the number of possible pathways is all but infinite , and the monsters that one encounters are undesigned and unpredictable . |
| 18 | While it might appear that the demand for redial engine overhaul is a declining trade , the need for reliable , thorough and comprehensive refurbishment of engines is all the more important . |
| 19 | The fact that the costs of this programme fall entirely on captive consumers is all too convenient . |
| 20 | THE assumption in traditional microeconomics of many buyers and sellers is all too crucial . |
| 21 | That such a young party should now have 42 MdBs is all the more striking . |