Example sentences of "are [adj] [verb] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 2 | ‘ Men with big company cars , big mortgages , big family commitments are prepared to risk all that in order to have control of their own destiny , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Let me assume that you would like to enter for practice at the Bar and are prepared to brave all hazards . |
| 4 | Provided you are careful to extract all the nails and cut around woodworm and any other defects , reclaimed floorboards can provide excellent timber for pine furniture . |
| 5 | Yet in almost every workplace in Britain we all know there are people who are willing to receive all the benefits of working in a trade union workplace , but too unknown to their colleagues , refuse to pay the costs . |
| 6 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 7 | The government , therefore , aims to avoid circumstances that are likely to unite all these opposition forces against it , and here it is helped by the practicalities of the situation . |
| 8 | Similarly , and rather hauntingly , in 2492 the Coen Brothers ' Miller 's Crossing of 1991 and Raoul Walsh 's High Sierra of 1941 are likely to strike all but the specialized eye as absolutely contemporaneous . |
| 9 | Lee Coates , the proprietor of Fimbra-member , the Ethical Investors Group ( 0242 522872 ) , which claims to be the only UK investment adviser dealing exclusively in green and ethical funds , says that only seven are likely to match all the ethical or green criteria investors may have . |
| 10 | Good photographs are likely to make all the difference to your submission . |
| 11 | And mothers are supposed to sink all their hopes ambitions in the one child . |
| 12 | However , he says , he has been misquoted and his work suppressed by publicly supported scientists who are supposed to follow all research leads on predator control . |
| 13 | And there is a whole host of other fabulous prizes ( listed below ) which are sure to thrill all enthusiastic cooks . |
| 14 | There is still much that we need to know about HIV and AIDS , and we are all learning all of the time . |
| 15 | These are all divides all the way down but you can change them all because you say four threes are twelve , seven threes are twenty one |
| 16 | It seems to me that the discussion right now is that we are all seeing all men hate all women ! |
| 17 | Alternatively , however , you may want to emphasise the point that actual readers are unlikely to respond all in the same way , especially readers differing in gender , class , age , ethnicity or some other aspect of social identity . |
| 18 | All I ask is that you should bear in mind that in an agency with 25 or 30 people you are unlikely to find all the jobs described : indeed , you are quite likely not to find them all in an agency with 500 people , and there are precious few of those in Europe , and not many in the USA . |
| 19 | Such costs are unlikely to cover all the work that a solicitor has undertaken on behalf of a client . |
| 20 | Local authorities in aggregate may suffer a fiscal imbalance inasmuch as they are unable to finance all those expenditure programmes that are considered desirable . |
| 21 | The market participants are unable to undertake all the mutually advantageous exchanges that would be entered into if buyers and sellers possessed the requisite information . |
| 22 | Some old people living alone , who are very frail , are unable to expend all the energy required to take a bath or shower unattended every day , and if their standards of personal hygiene have always been good this can be a real worry to them . |
| 23 | While our photographers will endeavour to attend selected games we are unable to cover all ties . |
| 24 | Mrs said that quote , when the time comes that Mr and Mrs are unable to provide all or any of the care themselves , I consider that it would be appropriate to employ carers direct and not via an agency . |
| 25 | These scheduled back-ups , which can be quite complex , are able to automate all the hand-selected options of the manual back-up utility . |
| 26 | They are able to persuade all but the most recalcitrant of patients to resume eating . |
| 27 | As I 've grown older , I never cease to be amazed at the theories of the amateur detectives who always turn up at any tragic occurrence and immediately are able to give all the answers . |
| 28 | Under these circumstances , children are able to use all their skill to develop and share their thinking . |
| 29 | We are able to arrange all types of insurance , tailor-made to a client 's specific requirements . |
| 30 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |