Example sentences of "they are [adj] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are obliged to believe all that we tell them ’ . |
| 2 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 3 | They are entitled to expect all the necessary encouragement , and legal and material support from the Government . |
| 4 | They are able to persuade all but the most recalcitrant of patients to resume eating . |
| 5 | While the opening exchanges between the clerk and the girl are very cursory , they are sufficient to introduce all that is necessary for an audience to know : the girl is a " " damishel " " ( I. 1 ) , the interlocutor a man ( " " sir " " , I. 2 ) , and the girl is vulnerable as she is alone : ( " Where is your master , where is your mistress ? " |
| 6 | Local authorities in aggregate may suffer a fiscal imbalance inasmuch as they are unable to finance all those expenditure programmes that are considered desirable . |