Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But we can be fairly confident , as a starting-point , that Rizzio , Darnley and Bothwell , chief actors in the drama of the last two years of her personal rule , are at best only a part of the explanation .
2 It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves .
3 I return again to the point that I made originally — why is it that this vulnerable , waif-like , often frighteningly naive girl who always speaks her mind — but is after all only a pop singer — is taken seriously at all ?
4 As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth .
5 I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art .
6 Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily
7 Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job .
8 For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience .
9 when I was in that nearly a fortnight .
10 Since the lift as constructed used virtually no water , there was from 1900 onwards no flow northward from Foxton .
11 Okay and erm when Dennis was on okay about a week ago
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