Example sentences of "be [adv] things to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But all this brings me to the ‘ Ongoing Debate ’ of the letters page and those comments of Naomi Wolf about variety and the impossibility of being all things to all women . |
| 2 | Indeed , were there more than a handful of black presenters on TV , he would n't be burdened with the impossible task of being all things to all black people . |
| 3 | Picture Marilyn Monroe , unhappily being all things to innumerable men ; James Jesus Angleton , the master of double deception who drove himself crazy by outguessing himself with Kim Philby , and John Fitzgerald Kennedy , who inaugurated the image of the role-playing , idolized actor-President ; a man capable of making people suspend their disbelief . |
| 4 | Neither was there any reference to Iraq , and it seems from the wording of one report on the proceedings , to the effect that ‘ the UN implicitly criticizes Iran ’ , that here was a resolution with human characteristics , one capable of being all things to all men . |
| 5 | There were always things to be done , and Grandma joined in with the rest of us in her quiet , dreamy , unobtrusive way . |
| 6 | There were still things to be said out of earshot . |