Example sentences of "[be] the [noun] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | … and I am the seed of all that is born … |
| 2 | from Gladstone and Gannon , and er he gave an awful lot of people at the S U and at Alcuin J C R a lot of grief over the provost , who then wrote them a letter saying I , Jim am the fault of all this and just generally made the students look even dafter for |
| 3 | Even the wild surmise occurred to me that Leslie might have lost his memory ; but commonsense reasserted itself , and I realised that this could not have been the fate of all his men . |
| 4 | A most unfortunate consequence of the deal with The Builder Group has been the redundancy of all the staff . |
| 5 | Of course this has always been the case for all entrants , for there are only forty-three chief constables and the same number of deputies , so few have a chief officer 's truncheon in their knapsack ( to paraphrase an old army chestnut ) . |
| 6 | As her eyes closed in sleep she knew that had n't been the case at all . |
| 7 | Since 1980 , it has been the right of all council house tenants to buy their own home . |
| 8 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |
| 9 | Inadequate acting has been the bane of all Mr Zeffirelli 's Shakespeare films . |
| 10 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 11 | That could have been the cause of all the trouble , I suppose . |
| 12 | She wondered what had been the use of all that trying to get clean on the train if they were now lost in a place where nobody would ever find them , not even when something happened and they disappeared for ever . |
| 13 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 14 | Conservationists , and all who seek to exploit the riches of the world 's waters , must take particular care of the favoured areas , for they in many cases are the fountain-head of all the rest . |
| 15 | It is views such as those expressed in the article which are the foundations of all forms of apartheid . |
| 16 | This has greatly encouraged a utilitarian attitude to life , and inflated the notion that human beings are the measure of all things . |
| 17 | Yet the inherent authenticity and force of such mystical experience are the heritage of all and within the potential grasp of all human beings . |
| 18 | The " fourteen points of truth " , which are the foundation for all that follows , concern teaching on both the Godhead and the manhood of Christ . |
| 19 | For instance , the section on nitrogen metabolism is prefaced by that famous anonymous ditty which starts How inoffensive are the faeces Of all the graminivorous species , That grind on grain and graze on grasses . |
| 20 | Pike are the fathers of all coarse fish they will eat almost anything that is in the way including ducklings and water rats . |
| 21 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 22 | We are the descendants of all those generations that emigrated out of Europe over the last three centuries to populate the emptier quarters of the earth . |
| 23 | Where are the adults in all of these images ? |
| 24 | What changes with the appearance of the vertebrates are not its building blocks or basic sources of energy utilization and transmission , but the organizing principles of the nervous system as a whole — a system that now contains the fully fledged learning and memory capacities that are the properties of all mammals , including , in their greatly expanded forms , primates , amongst them of course humans . |
| 25 | Are the Government at all interested in that figure ? |
| 26 | Because children are the future for all of us . |
| 27 | Whether Saddam Hussein had invaded or not , Kuwait 's days in its present form were numbered anyway , as are the days of all puppet regimes in the Arab World . |
| 28 | Social relations are the key to all ideas and hence to whatever reality a culture constructs . |
| 29 | Class relations , for Marx , are the key to all aspects of society . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just a beginner , they are the guys with all the experience . |