Example sentences of "all [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition is not simply a display of painted nudes ( and there are only four examples of the male nude ) ; rather , as the introductory text tells us : ‘ All were painted with the nude model directly in front of the artist ’ . |
| 2 | Not a bad idea therefore to chose and use three such spanking tenors as these : all were born in the last century ; all made operatic débuts in their early 20s ; all enjoyed singing to the people as well as to operatic audiences . |
| 3 | All were charged under the National Security Law which provided for a maximum penalty of death by hanging . |
| 4 | These after all were stated in the original RAWP 's terms of reference and remain as valid now as they were in 1975 . |
| 5 | The hierarchies of esteem in which they were held differed widely from one culture to another until all were engulfed in the pecuniary measure of values common to the world market . |
| 6 | Coupled to an external VHF aerial the 5.0W setting is capable of giving a useful range equal to that of many panel-mounted sets , but on test in the cockpit it failed to offer me much real advantage over the lower-powered units when all were used with the standard screw-on flexible antennas as supplied . |
| 7 | All died soon after , as did the mother , and all were buried in the same sepulchre . |
| 8 | All was underpinned by the widespread belief that local councillors were not likely to take a progressive view on educational policy , such matters as the arts or the preservation of historic buildings , and that local authority officials were less competent than their counterparts in Whitehall . |
| 9 | There was little individual choice of coffin , linings or handles ; all was left to the aesthetic judgement of the undertaker , and the client was rarely asked to express his views . |