Example sentences of "is [adv] [conj] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they do n't honestly care two hoots about people , if they can talk about the dreadful state the , the care of old people is in and all the rest of it and that it 's going to get worse , frightening old people . |
| 2 | Heading out to sea again , Pembrokeshire beaches are great places to walk when the mist is down and all the sun-worshippers are safely tucked away at home . |
| 3 | It is only if all these conditions are met that the adult is likely to respond appropriately ( see acts performed by children 's first words , Chapter 3 ) . |
| 4 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 5 | As the constable quoted above makes clear , it is not that all neighbourhood policemen defuse every situation by the display of patience , sympathy , tolerance , and understanding , it is more that this is their first choice and they use other recipes , by becoming ‘ heavy-handed ’ and resorting to arrests , only when this one fails . |
| 6 | The real grist of Watchdog 's story is not that all fishtanks are dangerous but that there are tanks on the market made from glass that is far too thin . |
| 7 | The argument here is not that all children should have access to all aspects of the curriculum . |
| 8 | If I use the analogy of women 's fashion , it is not that all the women in the western world suddenly decided one morning to cut a foot or more off all their dresses and to appear to a shocked and/or delighted male world in mini-skirts . |
| 9 | Now it is twelve o'clock and school is out and all those who do not stay behind for dinner are bounding down Trafalgar Street , the little ones paddling up to the Wellington-tops in the drifts left on either side by the snow plough . |
| 10 | For it is here that all our strength lies , the last certainty that light may survive in darkness . |
| 11 | It is here that all his shortcomings in stance , timing , speed , imagination of movement and fight strategy are highlighted . |
| 12 | This is even though all he simply did was enter into a guarantee . |
| 13 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 14 | A much more likely explanation of Libet 's findings is simply that all experiences are delayed relative to the stimulus causing them , so that synchronous external events produce synchronous experiences . |
| 15 | It is then that all hell has broken loose and we have found ourselves standing alone in the jungle again . |
| 16 | It is precisely because all is not certain that we have to make certain . |
| 17 | But then it is precisely because all significant ideologies are indeed this deep and elaborated that the concept can not be abstracted as some kind of ‘ informing spirit ’ , at the roots of all cultural production . |