Example sentences of "be [subord] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , we are not able to report how much cheaper the cars would be if all the current goodies decamped to the options list . |
| 2 | One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating . |
| 3 | The Mirror , a work of Victorine piety , is designed to reveal both the state of fallen human nature and what could be if all its potential was fulfilled . |
| 4 | " Excess liability " means the excess of liability to income tax over what it would be if all income tax not chargeable at the lower rate were charged at the basic rate to the exclusion of any higher rate . |
| 5 | How awfully dull it would be if all our teachers approached a class in exactly the same way , with exactly the same movements , all executed at the same pace and with expectations of the same rigid standard of achievement . |
| 6 | It deserves a book to itself , and a fat volume it would be when all its innermost secrets are known . |
| 7 | The actual signal for the ladder party to open the window and go will of course be when all the lights in the camp go out . |
| 8 | The great thing about this holiday club is if all you want to do is laze about in the sun , they 'll let you . |
| 9 | This is because all behaviours , spoken and unspoken , are overt and manifest . |
| 10 | This is because all possible fictions of scientific progress are virtual in present-day technology which has taken over the function of ‘ productive ’ simulation . |
| 11 | This is because all the variation margin payments due will have been up to the penultimate trading day . |
| 12 | Perhaps this is because all these changes affected middle class feminists , and middle class feminists have always been an embarrassment to their radical sisters who feel the movement would be purer if all its adherents were working class or women of colour . |
| 13 | This is because all that is needed is for Newco to be a close company and satisfy the relevant purpose test at the time when the managers subscribe their shares . |
| 14 | If Lotus has shown a total lack of imagination in developing 1-2-3 for Windows , maybe it 's because all its innovative effort has been poured into Improv . |
| 15 | Thought-disordered Speaker : Oh ! that 's because all women have a little bit of magic to them — I found that out — and it 's called — it 's sort of good magic — and nine is sort of a magic number + like I 've got nine colors here you will notice — I 've got yellow , green , blue , grey , orange , blue , and navy — and I 've got black — and I 've got a sort of clear white — the nine colors to me they are the whole universe — and they symbolize every man , woman and child in the world + |
| 16 | But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did . |
| 17 | I am for all the bloody rice in China . |
| 18 | School holidays are when all the men suddenly disappear . ’ |
| 19 | I think the reason I wanted long hair was because all my dolls were Sindys and Pippas , and they all had long blonde hair , so that was what I wanted . |
| 20 | They were all very good , but perhaps it was because all the Packs excepting the 3rd Shortfields had chosen characters from well-known books or plays or nursery-rhymes that when the 3rd Shortfields appeared in the quaint uniforms of Brownies of earlier days they won the loudest and longest applause of all . |
| 21 | It was because all that had happened so often that the baby was coming . |
| 22 | I wonder where the Labour party was while all these lessons were being learned . |