Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a pseudo-sophistication in our understanding of sexuality and its relation to human actions , for we have not grasped how very difficult it is to cope with all its manifestations . |
| 2 | It is to attend to all his master 's needs . |
| 3 | If he is to write at all he must , in the final irony , turn to language . |
| 4 | Another objective for dealers in their last few weeks is to rake in all commissions due to them , and to avoid doing much work as further monies may not be paid . |
| 5 | If it is to feed at all , it has to lower its head , so losing sight of its surroundings . |
| 6 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 7 | He 's got all the colo his job is to look after all the colours of all the patrons . |
| 8 | In the universities competitive bidding is to apply to all student places , although the Council has said that institutions will be protected from sudden and drastic cuts in funding as a result of unsuccessful bidding . |
| 9 | Wedgwood 's policy is to comply with all legislative requirements and to make the workplace as comfortable as possible for VDU users . |
| 10 | A newly discovered fifth-century inscription ( recording an alliance between Sparta and a people called the Erxadieis in Aitolia : ML 67 bis ) suggests that Sparta normally had the obligation to help her league allies if they were attacked ( ‘ if anyone marches against the Erxadieis with warlike intent , Sparta is to help with all possible force ’ ) ; that she did not intervene to help Aigina is the measure of her lack of will to fight . |
| 11 | The second part of the mind is the parent — this has nothing to do with the child 's actual parents rather , it is to do with all the rules and prejudices that a child absorbs from its parents . |
| 12 | But if a Basquiat legend is to emerge from all this activity , Basquiat père will have to alter his practice of refusing to talk to reporters . |
| 13 | ( The role of the teacher in the classroom is to deal with all the problems that the computer can not solve — helping the child who still does n't understand , hearing children read , and acting as manager , counsellor and troubleshooter . ) |
| 14 | One of the main goals of governmental authority , which is lexically prior to any other , is to ensure for all persons an equal ability to pursue in their lives and promote in their societies any ideal of the good of their choosing . |
| 15 | The fiduciary relationship , if it is to exist at all , must accommodate itself to the terms of the contract so that it is consistent with , and conforms to , them . |
| 16 | To miss it out would make the treatment itself take far longer , if indeed it is to succeed at all . |
| 17 | The cultivation of love is to think of all things as lovers , and the whole mind should be pervaded with thoughts of love . |
| 18 | In practice it 's a piece of paper that 's been written out by you or at your direction to say what is to happen to all your goods and chattels and property when you die . |
| 19 | By the Adoption Act 1958 , property of adopter and adoptee is to devolve in all respects as if the adoptee were the child of the adopter , born in lawful wedlock . |
| 20 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |