Example sentences of "[prep] all [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general consensus on this matter was left undisturbed until 1984 when Mr Theo Laurentius , an art dealer who specialises in Rembrandt prints , became convinced that the paper on which the etchings were printed did after all hold the key to their authenticity and thus to their value . |
| 2 | Although it was decided after all to allow the continuation of school foundations , in many cases the continuity had already been lost ; and by 1550 , when the Court of Augmentations began to fund such foundations , the theory of English educational endowment had entered a new era . |
| 3 | Only here what must be put squarely , if not exactly clearly , before the reader is what it is that will after all betray the murderer . |
| 4 | He left her , lying disordered on the sheepskins ; and after all left a coin beside her , walking out into the night . |
| 5 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 6 | Following some intense telephone diplomacy between Bonn and Paris , Chancellor Helmut Kohl and President Franois Mitterrand agreed that the Strasbourg EC summit , which opens here today , should after all agree a date for revising the Treaty of Rome and preparing for supra-national monetary union . |
| 7 | Then , in 1965 radar echoes from Mercury showed that the planet did not after all have a period of 88 days , but about 60 days . |
| 8 | To prefer solitude with a book or a record-player is after all to have a case to answer — ‘ It 's wrong to be by yourself ’ — though not , as some would say , an unanswerable case . |
| 9 | Because Proust saw involuntary memory , which after all causes the past to coalesce with the present , he saw involuntary memory as a means of abolishing time , however provisionally , however briefly , and in this way the artist takes on a God-like role , since through his art he can free the individual from time , and to this extent confer immortality on that individual . |
| 10 | On the other , I felt that he had after all taken a sort of liking for me . |
| 11 | Edward early knew the deficiency of his letters to Hooton : ‘ It is a weariness to fumble for truth and completeness , and after all to feel the failure at both . |
| 12 | The best time of all to visit a water is one hour before dawn to an hour after the sun has risen . |
| 13 | And so , Pilate he tries to do this , he tries first of all to shift the responsibility , and he does it by different methods , first of all he sends into Herod , the king then he suggests that Barabbas should be released to the people , now however , both of these methods of shifting responsibility have failed and the ball is firmly back with Pilate . |
| 14 | The final move is to turn around , taking the model with you , as before , and you will be performing one of the most difficult of all hovering manoeuvres-the nose-in circle . |
| 15 | the proletarian party must first of all advocate the proclamation and immediate realization of the complete freedom of secession from Russia of all the nations and peoples who were oppressed by Tsarism , or who were forcibly joined to or forcibly kept within the boundaries of the State . |
| 16 | When you have a general anaesthetic for a caesarean section or a general anaesthetic in general , you are first of all given a pre-med . |
| 17 | When I came home the sun was shining brilliantly and warmly into the front of the house so I first of all had a read about the similar groups and then had a quick and short snooze till the phone rang and I began work on the laptop in the sunshine , as the battery capacity lasts about an hour or so . |
| 18 | Chairman , may I first of all declare an interest in this . |
| 19 | Erm well I mean I think there 's some very fundamental issues in all this in , in the communication spectrum first of all using the phrase back to basics , what do people mean by that and that 's where the , they , they have gone wrong because the problem is that here we are , four people round this table and I 'm sure if all of us were asked what do we mean by getting back to basics , we 'll come out with a totally different you know set of things that meanings . |
| 20 | In Four Saints Thomson 's informality was given free reign since he first of all improvised the music at the piano then , when it stuck , wrote it down to a figured bass . |
| 21 | They had to first of all get a base from which to achieve , unfortunately of course gaining the power and the growth of the power no doubt the ideals were corrupted and it became what you are su suggesting it did , it no longer represented the people . |
| 22 | Erm when you do your stock do you first of all roast the bone ? |
| 23 | The hardest question of all concerns the evolution of sex in eukaryotes , because of the twofold advantage to females that abandon it . |
| 24 | Line , shape , colour , etc. , is there for all , but to express pure feeling you must first of all understand the nature of the marks you are making . |
| 25 | It is first of all to understand the past : to reconstruct those forgotten norms , decode the obsolete rituals , and detect the hidden gestures ’ . |
| 26 | First of all find a company with whom you feel at ease . |
| 27 | It is a fallacy at the present moment to believe that there are any quick cures for our monetary difficulties , least of all joining the ERM ( European exchange rate mechanism ) . |
| 28 | On arriving at York we walked the short distance to the N.R.M. and first of all paid a visit to the Reading Room to look through the Selwyn Higgins collection of notes , photos etc. relating to the BCR . |
| 29 | Suddenly Georg hated his father , hated Suzi , hated Suzi 's parents , and most of all hated the theatre and this wretched actress who was arriving . |
| 30 | The offending wife would be clamped into the chair , which was on wheels , then propelled off the quay into the estuary where — temporarily at least — she might be silenced , to the relief of the husband and the general hilarity of all save the wife herself . |