Example sentences of "is [conj] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is particularly boring about it is that all the arguments are circular . |
| 2 | But what we argue is that all should have the right to put their case for asylum fairly and properly , and reasonably quickly . ’ |
| 3 | The ideal situation for the artist is that all money should be paid to the artist . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've come all this way to see you and is that all the welcome they get , ’ Rose chided gently . |
| 5 | It is that all your life you have been soft and this treatment shocks and stuns you . |
| 6 | Another daft view is that all the woes which have beset the Soviet Union and its satellites are because these countries did n't know how to run their economies . |
| 7 | For a German observer who had been interned in Britain 1914-18 , ‘ the great secret of masculine psychology is that all men of all ages act and behave like schoolboys as soon as their individualities are merged in a crowd . ’ |
| 8 | The reason is that all the weapons must fit inside the radar-screening fuselage to prevent their unstealthy shapes from giving the aircraft away . |
| 9 | Its basis is that all life is to be valued and treated with respect ; that the rhythm of life is something implanted by the Creator ; that the different ecosystems have to be treasured , even when we regard them as hostile to human life itself . |
| 10 | The only difference is that all that acting , all that recording , all that boring , frightening flying to gigs gave her the cash to fulfil that dream . |
| 11 | We can not enter into this philosophical debate here , but what we should note — and what will be obvious to anyone soaked in the traditions of religion — is that all the world 's religious faiths use endless analogies for God with promiscuous abandon . |
| 12 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 13 | The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ . |
| 14 | Genetically speaking , the reason for this is that all the cells except the sex cells in a wolf 's body have the same genes , while , as for the sex cells , all the genes have an equal chance of being in each one of them . |
| 15 | The important conclusion is that all the cells in the body contain the same genetic information ; what makes the cells different is how that genetic information is used . |
| 16 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |
| 17 | What is important is that all the chlorine in the VOCs ends up as chloride ion rather than other potentially hazardous chlorinated compounds . |
| 18 | One advantage of a letter is that all the points ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) can be dealt with in advance and so the interviewer is expected and time is saved in not having to go through all the verbal explanations . |
| 19 | One is that all three tawny owl pellet samples show the same pattern , with the range of incisor excess for the three samples being 126–136 per cent . |
| 20 | The physical effect of this is that all test particles which fall into the non-scalar curvature singularity feel infinite tidal forces , but observers can move arbitrarily close to the singularity on other curves and feel no untoward effects . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh is that all , ’ he replied , and relaxed again . |
| 22 | The primary problem that all infrared astronomers face , whether using instruments on Earth or on a satellite , is that all objects emit infrared or ‘ heat ’ radiation . |
| 23 | Another possibility is that all quasars and BL Lac objects are beamed roughly towards us , and that something else distinguishes them — something that so far remains hidden in the enigmatic central powerhouse . |
| 24 | My only regret here is that all are from North American authors and thus quote largely North American examples . |
| 25 | The traditional explanation is that all mothers with colicky babies — regardless of what sort of people they are or what else is happening in their lives — suddenly become more confident and relaxed at this point . |
| 26 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 27 | But the difference is that all but a handful are still towns . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ For Pete 's sake is that all , can I get some sleep now ? ’ |
| 29 | As we know , exercise plays an important part in any diet/exercise routine , but the key thing is that all exercise is not the same . |
| 30 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |