Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were after all the most active members , including myself . |
| 2 | These were after all the two leading literary journals . |
| 3 | You were like all the rest . |
| 4 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 5 | It was impossible to conduct a real argument with the Sechem because they were above all the interpreters and arbiters of the Yasa , the authority on the law to whom men turned when they were in dispute . |
| 6 | They were with all the boring stuff at the beginning , the primitive stuff all the other kids used to run past to get to the Frasque fighter . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you we were in all the evening . ’ |
| 8 | and the writing and reading , but I mean before they were on all the time |
| 9 | ‘ They were at all the important functions in the area and Trevor 's action to save Cherry would have been automatic . |
| 10 | Unfortunately over the years there was such a deficit for whatever reason lot 's of things were tried it was then decided that it was two options one was closing lose so much money or actually put it out to franchise fortunately enough that people were at all the money and we did n't get an income from it . |
| 11 | If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . |
| 12 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 13 | What should have happened , perhaps , was for all the actors in this particular drama to have realised the rival groups ' strengths and weaknesses and for senior management to have developed control procedures that divided up responsibilities for the production process in an equitable way . |
| 14 | Farr-Jones said the whole notion of a players ' company was for all the players to be involved , not to feather the nests of a select upper echelon . |
| 15 | Or maybe you can say that Mellor wanted to be the captain , but she was for sure the admiral . |
| 16 | Artichaut sauce vinaigrette it was for both the girls . |
| 17 | Sometimes they stressed the usefulness to their own careers of studying a science degree , and this was for some the determining factor in choosing between science and arts . |
| 18 | ‘ The success of the operation was worth all the suffering ’ |
| 19 | It was worth all the effort just to see the bird do its stuff , and enjoy the indescribable thrill of so many chases . |
| 20 | Despite , and maybe because of , the trickier moments , it was worth all the sacrifices and hardships . |
| 21 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 22 | But it was worth all the hard work . |
| 23 | Despite , and maybe because of , the trickier moments , it was worth all the sacrifices and hardships . |
| 24 | Dressing for the afternoon , she wondered what Mrs Darrell was like , and whether she was worth all the tohu-bohu of preparing a slap-up tea , and being formally ‘ At Home ’ , which had resulted in even more work for McAllister , as Sally-Anne was increasingly beginning to think herself when she was being a maid of all work . |
| 25 | It claimed the tenancy was worth half the difference in value between the tenanted land and equivalent vacant possession land , and taxed half this amount . |
| 26 | She was through all the ordeals now , and had only the journey to accomplish . |
| 27 | Nervous though we were , it did turn out to be reasonably straightforward — but this was after all the beginners ' course and the ingredients had been prepared ; even the chives had been chopped . |
| 28 | With much irritation the Duchess of Buckingham , who was after all the illegitimate daughter of a deposed king , wrote to the Countess of Huntingdon , an unusually high-born follower of George Whitefield : |
| 29 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 30 | And since literacy was a prime requirement , type-setting was of all the manual trades the nearest to teaching , governessing and clerking : traditionally the only hopes for educated girls who needed to earn a living . |