Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually they are quite capable of doing this for themselves , but if your elderly parent turns to you for advice on financial matters your main aims should be : I. To make sure that she is receiving all the State benefits and pensions to which she may be entitled . |
| 2 | The wider food industry now has to demonstrate that it is using all within its power to minimise the risk of injury to the health of the consumer . |
| 3 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 4 | It is hoped all will not be lost with this giant swing of the pendulum . |
| 5 | Now it is assumed all in a household have an equal share of the total income . |
| 6 | The darts , the lumps of poison and the raw materials from which it is extracted all provide a challenge for others with a taste ( figuratively speaking ) for excitement . |
| 7 | I conclude that this book could most definitely happen , in fact it is happening all the time in our lives although we are protected by our parents who are conditioned to life . |
| 8 | But of course the minute you put a , slap a cover on this information , it begins to , to change and people die and new governments are elected and whatever , er so yes , we are , we have in our employ someone who 's sole job it is to read all the newspapers , er watch the T V , all the media and keep all the information up to date , so the , that 's a full time job really and they 're working on the data base day and night |
| 9 | It is ending all manufacturing apart from the VS line , which means that most of the 1,000 remaining manufacturing jobs are at risk . |
| 10 | Under what circumstances it is released we need to discover ; maybe it is only released under special circumstances , maybe it is released all the time . ’ |
| 11 | It is abandoning all its operations in continental Europe by closing 92 stores in Belgium , 210 in France , and its Brussels headquarters and warehouse . |
| 12 | Is the Secretary of State aware that the United States still appears to be at war with Vietnam and that it is blocking all aid and trade in the International Monetary Fund and World bank and through misuse of the COCOM regulations ? |
| 13 | The two were never in danger and were helped down the trail by the men whose job it is to protect all presidents and vice-presidents . |
| 14 | What I why I was emphasizing earlier on how important it is to get all this over on the telephone . |
| 15 | It is doing all that it can to ensure that skilled people will be available to meet the demands that will undoubtedly be made on the construction industry as the economy recovers from recession . |
| 16 | This analysis must however be extended if it is to cover all the uses of the infinitive since there are also cases in which the latter is not in relation with another verb , as in the following exclamations : ( 1 ) Oh to be in England now that April 's there ! |
| 17 | It is to surrender all purposeful hope of changing , through literature or any other means , the world in which one is bound to live . |
| 18 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 19 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 20 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 21 | That he is exposing all . |
| 22 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 23 | B b b because that , that 's the way he sees it , he 's , he is interpreting all of these things as revolutionary , right , I 'm not at all sure if they were . |
| 24 | He is desecrating all they fought for . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And I 'm sure he is going all the way to the top , just like Ellery . |
| 26 | The challenge for them is to get all the way round and being able to say ‘ I completed the Circuit of Ireland ’ will be reward enough . |