Example sentences of "all [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I can collect Miss Maynard from Liverpool Street and then drive us all down to Hillmarden together . ’ |
2 | It 's all down to money . |
3 | So what of Councillor claim that it 's all down to lack of Government cash . |
4 | It 's all down to confusion rather than deliberate ignorance , so it 's worth covering the whole idea of shareware , how it differs from other types of software such as public domain , and what the user 's obligations are both legally and morally . |
5 | It was all down to confidence , thought Lydia . |
6 | Beautiful hair is not all down to nature — more often than not , it 's a result of a regular treatment programme with the right products . |
7 | I know that none of us has any choice about what we eat ; it 's all down to drainage , and some systems are obviously better than others . |
8 | It 's all down to time and motion study ; fill seven haynets at the weekend and you 'll save yourself time in the week . |
9 | It 's all down to pressure to keep production going and also if you do everyone perfectly rightly you run the risk of closing the mine , or putting six or seven hundred men on the dole . |
10 | And then you must keep it all up to date . |
11 | He returns with the news that he has been asked to ensure that the Parish Registers are all up to date . |
12 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
13 | We 're now all up to date and we agree with head office and we can take it from here . |
14 | That they are all up to date and er I 'll just do a final check up after the meeting . |
15 | Cos I know they 're all up to date . |
16 | He despises the human race and the combinations that make it tick ; the human race in its present state , he 'd qualify — he 'd like to send us all back to nursery school — so he has to behave as unlike his fellow beings as he can . ’ |
17 | The Forest 's colourful past is never far away , with a fascinating range of working museums , mines , interpretation centres and ancient houses vividly bringing it all back to life . |
18 | He would take us all out to Trader Vics at the Hilton Hotel . |
19 | There was evolved — it would be wrong to say planned — a system for the production of war materials , and the provisioning of the towns which subordinated all else to survival . |
20 | He summed up the disseminated structure of his novels ( often in his case a necessary result of serial publication , but also probably a matter of personal preference ) , in the same work , when he compared the chapters of a novel to a convoy of vessels and himself , the inventor , as a man-of-war turning attention now to one ship , now to another , in order to bring them all safely to port . |