Example sentences of "all [prep] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food . |
| 2 | It 's all about involving the staff . |
| 3 | As fusion research today is all about containing the fuel , any benefit here would be more than welcome . |
| 4 | It 's all about enjoying the sea . ’ |
| 5 | It 's all about enjoying the sea ’ |
| 6 | Acting 's all about doing the actions . |
| 7 | It 's all about testing the mood of the populace . |
| 8 | ‘ Sure , we can adapt and get the ball forward quickly when needs be , but that 's all about having the variety to cope with any situation . |
| 9 | So it 's , it 's all about realizing the limitation of your model . |
| 10 | Because it 's all about enhancing the area of the war memorial , and I think that should go for next year 's enhancement . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a spin-off from the Congo slimhole project and is all about re-engineering the way we do things in order to become more efficient . ’ |
| 12 | I mean er we , we have er a great job to do , I mean we 're all about improving the environment , we 're all about working with very pleasant things like rivers and we 're all about doing important things like protecting people from flooding . |
| 13 | She says it 's all about giving the children an opportunity to play with things they could n't normally play with . |
| 14 | It is all about timing the action , curbing any tendency to try to hit too hard , and waiting for the clubhead . |
| 15 | Erm all that remains is to say thank you all for taking the trouble to turn up and show an interest in the administration of the society . |
| 16 | Now , the relation introducing such an adjective is assignment ; but there is no reason at all for taking the relation of the predicate qualifier to be anything other than qualification . |
| 17 | These older men definitely wanted to go back to their families , and the younger ones were all for fighting the enemies of La Belle France in this most superior kind of foreign legion . |
| 18 | Despite good cash flow , this would leave no money at all for growing the oil and gas business . |
| 19 | point out , such uses have a " negative orientation " : the speaker does not think that any good reasons exist at all for performing the event which the infinitive denotes . |
| 20 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 21 | To be alone is one thing , but to be alone and to have no means at all of shattering the shell of silence around you to summon the comforting sound of a human voice is quite another . |
| 22 | On the other hand , I 've got nothing at all against backing the scum.That way , if they lose and the bet does n't come up , you 're still happy anyway because they 've been beaten , and if they are going to win , you might as well make some money out of it . |
| 23 | The monarch might name the officer himself , but if that officer had the power of naming a deputy the Crown had no influence at all in choosing the person who actually did the work . |
| 24 | A diving ship will have no difficulty at all in bringing the fuselage to the surface . |
| 25 | Staff quality is perhaps the most important factor of all in providing the standard of service that is expected by those who pay for it . |
| 26 | Send material by mini-cab if necessary and always phone back within 24 hours if there is any delay at all in providing the material . |
| 27 | The NCRA provides very little guidance at all on applying the rule of reason , while the block exemption applies only if ‘ the knowhow and the patents which result from the research contribute substantially to technical and economic progress ’ . |
| 28 | My concern that this might be a common fault was raised when I quoted the part number to my local Genuine Parts dealer who not only instantly recognised it , but knew how many were in stock and which bin they were stored in — and all without consulting the stores computer . |
| 29 | And no matter how long it takes , we will understand each other — all without making the mother feel stupid . ’ |
| 30 | With reference to the official statistics , Durkheim did this first of all by regarding the rates compiled by officials in the pursuance of their routine duties as not so much a simple factual registration of certain types of death , but as indicators of a " suicidogenic " current caused by various states of society itself . |