Example sentences of "the [noun] is [conj] all " in BNC.

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1 While Darwinian processes are likely to be only one of several mechanisms responsible for evolutionary change in form ( there is much debate , which need not concern us here , about the relative contribution of these other mechanisms ) , the point for the present is that all forms of life on earth today are clearly the results of comparable evolutionary pressures over the whole of geological time .
2 The difficulty is that all the religions of the world have text books which are still studied , which all say that women are stupid , women are wicked , women are property , and women are revolting !
3 The result is that all the other countries which buy US manufactured aircraft are fitted with poor quality CVR installations unless , like new Zealand , they go out of their way to require ‘ hot mike ’ systems .
4 The result is that all Home Secretaries are grossly over-worked , although most will have found their own ways of keeping their heads above water .
5 The comparability is that all three were involved in a ‘ break ; the mutation by which a new science is established in a new problematic , separated from the old ideological problematic ’ ( Althusser and Balibar 1970 : 153 ) .
6 ( It should be noted here that the groom himself is of necessity a classifactory cross-cousin of the bride , for the rule is that all marriages must be between kinsmen of the same caste .
7 The effect is that all readings are slightly low .
8 The plan is that all second year trainees will be placed within employers .
9 The typical company — one limited by shares — must issue some shares , and the initial presumption of the law is that all shares confer the same rights and impose the same liabilities .
10 The benefit is that all the tax reclaimed is dealt with by somebody other than the charity .
11 The danger is that all Twelve risk making themselves equally irrelevant , even when crises erupt on their own doorstep .
12 The danger is that all the good , solid work will be thrown away .
13 ( The seller will generally try to restrict this to a warranty of specifically identified information : the acquirer will want a warranty of all information but not if the consequence is that all information is to be treated as a disclosure ) .
14 And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ .
15 Ultimately , it does not matter very much what arguments are used to reject evidence : the point is that all possible post hoc arguments must be marshalled to defend one 's position against other scholars : the more arguments that can be used , the better .
16 But the difference is that all but a handful are still towns .
17 WAAF With Wings ( GMS Enterprises , 137pp , illus , sbk , £7.99 ) by Y M Lucas is essentially about learning to fly , but the difference is that all those budding pilots included within the pages are women .
18 The truth is that all sacramental thinking and language are symbolic , and precisely thereby , they work in a way not weaker but actually stronger than the way the naive realist calls ‘ real ’ .
19 This is actually the state the of health service and the truth is that all of these organisational changes are really not gon na solve the basic problems of the health service which is under- funded and under-resourced .
20 Even among lawyers , the belief is that all that 's needed to change the situations is the will .
21 that they thought they could develop and hav hold events on , and er , he said , like we , we came up with some good ideas , put forward some ideas , really good ideas , for things to do on this land , and he said , the trouble is that all these councillors back on to these pieces of land , and he said , er , they do n't want people coming along and enjoying themselves on it , because they want to go and walk their labradors on it .
22 This sounds counter-productive , but the theory is that all those self-employed lawyers and doctors and dentists will be more truthful about their income if the government is demanding less of it from them .
23 The probability is that all but the very smallest business would be conducted as limited companies , making the proceeds of the proposed new duty substantially greater .
24 The ideal situation for the artist is that all money should be paid to the artist .
25 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 .
26 The sentence is itself ‘ redundant ’ with respect to the opening sentence of Beckett 's Malone Dies which it self-consciously imitates , and the implication is that all discourse is but a re-hashing of another 's words .
27 The message is that all staff of an institution have more than an ‘ academic ’ interest in the activities of staff in other departments .
28 The latest word around the coffee-machines is that All Will Be Revealed tonight . ’
29 The answer is that all three have decided to move to London 's Docklands .
30 It should be obvious , from the discussion of dual-route reading models in Chapter 6 , that the answer is that all words ( exception or regular ) would be read well , but non-words would not .
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