Example sentences of "[prep] be all [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be all questions this week , and I 've had a friend asking if it is possible to add stain to varnish to change the colour . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not going to be all romances and girls and all that , ’ he says matter-of-factly . |
| 3 | When there used to be all houses round there , there used to be a fish shop there as well . |
| 4 | It has to do , it has to be all bits , that 's what that 's all you do . |
| 5 | Where the bus , and you know where the buses park and everything , that used to be all sidings right under that bridge that 's got the weight limit on |
| 6 | Well when they 've got this here lace , there used to be all pins at the side of this er of these er frames . |
| 7 | Thus the modern saloon and hatchback has to be all things to all people . |
| 8 | Politicians have to be all things to all people . |
| 9 | You see the Vox is trying to be all things , but in fact it 's only really good for one thing at a time . ’ |
| 10 | In trying to be all things to all men it became over-complex . ’ |
| 11 | He will have studied human nature and desires to be all things to his parish . |
| 12 | In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people . |
| 13 | Can he explain that contradiction , or is he just a politician running scared of the electorate and trying to be all things to all people ? |
| 14 | The motion itself is a compromise some on my side have said it 's too much of a compromise they 've said you 're tr trying to be all things to all people . |
| 15 | At its worst this results in a sort of tasteless Euro-soup , which by trying to be all things to all men , ends up being nothing to anybody . |
| 16 | He 's trying to be all things to all men is n't he ? |
| 17 | I do n't want to either , Bill , but I must come back on this , I mean Choppy wants all things and wants to be all things to all men . |
| 18 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you going to be all blokes together ? ’ said his wife , emerging on to the landing folding a pair of jodhpurs . |
| 20 | Of the best , who happen to be all men . |
| 21 | There 's going to be a seventy acre community nature park eventually , so that 's quite an area to cover , but it 's not going to be all trees — it 's going to be some open glades for butterflies and so on , so there should be a nice variation there . |
| 22 | It seemed to be all suckers and tentacles . |
| 23 | They seemed to be all sizes . |