Example sentences of "[prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It offended the religious , because it seemed to make God out to be untruthful or deceitful ; in the scientific age , science was after all a route to truth , and only the Devil was the father of lies .
2 The 40MHz species , let alone the 36MHz , was after all a compromise chip when Sun and TI earlier discovered the 50MHz would be harder to make than they thought .
3 Lots of writers have produced extraordinary work in conditions more immediately oppressive than mine — mine is after all a kind of open prison — and their example inspires me .
4 The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology .
5 After all a man 's got a right to a place of his own . ’
6 It is after all a film about a mother and daughter relationship .
7 ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . )
8 Cos after all a coin was a , had a monetary value that meant you could go and buy something with it .
9 After all a molecule is indifferent to the discipline practised by its observer , and it will indulge in physical , chemical or biological processes ( or any combination thereof ) according to the circumstances ; a la cane options are strictly forbidden .
10 And hell , I thought ; I had been tired ; I was tired still , and I would phone that evening — definitely — and say I 'd fallen asleep , and nobody would be too bothered , and after all a chap could only cope with so much sorrow-saying in one day … of course I 'd phone .
11 After all a walker is probably unlikely to take an axe to some prime woodland , build a fire , get a guitar out and sing Kumbaya my Lord all night .
12 It is after all a suburb of Abingdon
13 This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings .
14 There is after all no point in throwing good money after bad , and the need to maintain harmonious industrial relations is likely to be considered of greater importance than achieving a barren judgment .
15 Unless the mystery of the Eurotunnel share price is satisfactorily explained to me , I shall just have to assume that there is after all no rhyme or reason to the universe .
16 After all the title of the service in the book of common order is confirmation held admission to the lord 's supper .
17 Rev. 31 ( 1938 ) , 205–36 ) argued plausibly that it was about experiments in induced lethargy ( as after all the title of Clearchus ' dialogue about sleep suggests ) .
18 Because that implies that this kind of thing then spreads to other areas of life , I mean it , after all the revolution of seventeen ninety eight did n't have anything to do with erm industrial relations as such , I mean it was er it was really about the monarchy , the state and er people starving and all that stuff , but the this introduces the interesting idea that once you 've got a kind of pattern in the culture to something , it can then reappear in other areas .
19 There is always a man from just down the road , or the basement flat , or the office , whose name Howard does n't quite catch , and who was up at Cambridge just after all the rest of them .
20 This shift from a conflictual dyadic political structure is not simply a question of historical change , of the recent appearance of ‘ minorities ’ : after all the slave was already constituted simultaneously according to different groups ( for example male or female ) , the Lumpenproletariat always had to be excluded .
21 ‘ The truth of the matter is that the children remain in care after all the evidence has been considered by the children 's panel and the courts . ’
22 One of those who fought to prevent the building said ‘ We do n't know if it is worth preserving after all the upheaval on site ’ .
23 He admitted last night : ‘ It would be incredible if we pulled it off after all the upheaval at the club this season .
24 There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on .
25 Particularly when it went wrong and after all the man was purely a terrorist .
26 I 'm sure the Hague Linker needed a new needle after all the work it had done .
27 And the amount of help you get the day before your exams -the same morning I turned round to Hilary after all the work she 'd done with me and said , " I 'm going to fail , I 'm not doing it . "
28 She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name .
29 To disturb them after all the work that has been done would be a disaster . ’
30 ‘ To disturb them after all the work that has been done over many years would be a disaster . ’
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