Example sentences of "[prep] all a [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 | Coleridge had after all an interest in the maintenance of this humanity , for without it he seemed unable to regain those peaceful days represented in Frost at Midnight . |
| 15 | In the novel , however , Marcel finds that this exploration mostly leads to a dead end , since the conscious effort of remembering , which is after all an effort of mind and will , is something which at best yields only a lifeless image of the past . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 17 | of the Curriculum Advice and Support Team ( CAST ) at Jordanhill College of Education is a member of the Advanced Courses Task Group and was closely involved in the HN unit development , producing first of all a unit in the field of engineering . |
| 18 | Just as you can not add up all the prices in a shop to arrive at what it would cost to buy the shop , nor can you add up the price of all a company 's shares to arrive at what the company is worth . |
| 19 | Change in the law to stop sequestration of all a union 's assets by the courts . |
| 20 | In the mid-eighteenth century , Germany was not — and never had been — a notable centre of classical studies , and least of all a centre of Greek studies . |
| 21 | There is no solution for the conflict in Africa , or in the world , unless there is first of all a change in the heart and understanding of man … |
| 22 | But early on you see he when I before the war he 'd nothing was first of all a push bike |
| 23 | The course is divided into two parts , first of all a part that I shall be conducting , dealing with more professional use of the telephone : that 's how you use the telephone , what you say , and how you use it in that way , how you answer the telephone . |
| 24 | The beautiful floating Moluscas ( Portuguese Men of War ! ) and the luminous species which bispangle [ sic ] the water at night are to a lover of Nature all objects of interest , not forgetting the most beautiful of all a Shoal of Flying Fish . ’ |
| 25 | He is first of all a saviour ! |
| 26 | Nobody , least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch , still more record , domestic television output ! |
| 27 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 28 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 29 | Least of all a woman . |
| 30 | yes , I mean , in contra-distinction to that , first of all a number of these increased charges , like fifty p for a journey to a day centre , they are standard practice in other counties . |