Example sentences of "be [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You must show cookie here how grateful you are for all the trouble she 's taken . ’
2 Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ?
3 " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . "
4 We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish .
5 ‘ You 're like all the rest , ’ he said with disappointment , reading her helplessness with humiliating ease .
6 ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’
7 ‘ Well , considering I 'm working as hard as I am with all the stress involved , I think I 'm probably very fit . ’
8 I am in all the history books .
9 He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing .
10 She arrived back down in Gavarnie , ‘ still merry and confident ’ according to the Anna lists , as well she might be for all the effort she had had to make .
11 ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’
12 Only then you turned up on my doorstep with some rigmarole about Sadie , and I was disappointed , because I did n't want you to be like all the rest .
13 In general , then , children are to be assessed at the end of each of the key stages ( i.e. at 7,11 , 14 and 16 ) ; at the first stage , the assessment will be in the three core subjects , but at subsequent stages , it will be in all the foundation subjects .
14 Where would we be without all the trash ?
15 We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory .
16 At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list .
17 If he does , it should certainly not be on all the time .
18 It 's gon na be on all the time
19 Oh it has to be on all the time has it ?
20 ‘ Michael 's not the sort of person who wants you to be around all the time , ’ she said .
21 She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’
22 Yeah , it 's been on all the time is n't it ?
23 You were like all the rest .
24 ‘ I told you we were in all the evening . ’
25 and the writing and reading , but I mean before they were on all the time
26 Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it .
27 Yeah more to come yeah so it 's it 's worth all the dosh .
28 you see and it 's for all the family .
29 That little room 's for all the jumble sale of course !
30 ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle .
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