Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 2 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There is after all not a lot that sets franchise outlets apart from other businesses . |
| 5 | The question might be raised whether a surgeon 's callousness is after all even a local violation of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 6 | A university is after all fundamentally an academic institution , world famous universities of course have all sorts of other attributes er for example , er theatres er as well as er sports grounds and that is just as true in this country as it is for example in the United States or Australia or even in the non-English speaking world . |
| 7 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | As has been frequently pointed out , it is no use providing excellent beer or food if the pub in question has lost all of its charm and atmosphere ; and surely a multi-roomed pub , with a number of differing environments , is the best way to serve what is after all always a very diverse and unstandardised community . |
| 11 | That 's in white though the the bathroom suite in there is in white . |
| 12 | The earliest mention of the church is in 1115 when the church and titles were given to the Abbey of St Martin in York . |
| 13 | As arranged with the Commander , Milton and Pooley arrived at ffeatherstonehaugh 's at ten o'clock the following morning . |
| 14 | Intelligence , even codebreaking , is at best only a fragmented adjunct to strategic planning . |
| 15 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 16 | As more than half the population do not pay income tax this is at best only a half-truth . |
| 17 | I do not agree that such a postmodern attack on autonomous and auratic culture is at all necessarily an offensive against ‘ bourgeois ’ art . |
| 18 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 19 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 20 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Whatever the official view of police work , to those on the ground , it was above all else a job . |
| 23 | It was above all else a moral philosophy , the means by which the oppressed members of society came to understand the source of their oppression and worked towards its overthrow . |
| 24 | For Nizan , it was above all else the year of the Spanish experience . |
| 25 | when I was in that nearly a fortnight . |
| 26 | In general one might say that Law has become marginally less distinct from other subjects than it was in that quite a few people are doing cross disciplinary research , e.g. in law and economics and law and society . |
| 27 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 28 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 29 | The occasion of the most recent serious attempt was in 1968 when a Bill designed to further limit the power of the Lords received a second reading in the House of Commons but it foundered . |
| 30 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |