Example sentences of "[is] [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah more to come yeah so it 's it 's worth all the dosh . |
| 2 | you see and it 's for all the family . |
| 3 | That little room 's for all the jumble sale of course ! |
| 4 | ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle . |
| 5 | The Americans say they are surprised at the response because they do n't think the difference of opinion is worth all the fuss it is causing . |
| 6 | This small daily job is worth all the effort . |
| 7 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 8 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 9 | Unfortunately when it comes to originality that 's about all the game has to offer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is after all a film about a mother and daughter relationship . |
| 12 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The air — ’ he paused , ‘ it is after all the nectar of the district , the essence of the mountains — to eat simple food in such air with such wonders of nature to look on — who could ask for more ? ’ |
| 16 | Art is after all the subject of attention for both critic and historian , even though the functions and methods of the two sorts of writer have drawn apart . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That is after all the task of the board and leadership of a company . |
| 19 | It is after all the effectiveness ( or otherwise ) of the socialised deployment of the personal sector surplus which would over time build support for ( or resentment against ) any such scheme . |
| 20 | I have tried , without , I hope , ignoring economic and social factors , not to let them obliterate what is after all the key to any historical situation — the men who thought or acted in this way or that . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is against all the evidence , but it is a compelling image , and one that clearly derives from this present age in our history , which now has the Shakespeare it deserves : an old , sex-obsessed vagrant in the Forest of Dean , refusing to pay his Poll Tax . |
| 23 | Beach is really good cos it 's like all the beach is like a tiled area where you sit down . |
| 24 | Well you do n't , you do n't really look as if you need to lose weight cos it 's probably why you got a few stares , it 's like all the diet books that have sylphlike people on the front . |
| 25 | But Best , spiky and articulate though he is , is above all a pragmatist . |
| 26 | The technical survey is above all a category of book in which the writer will have closely observed the material discussed . |
| 27 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 28 | The most famous of all the sections of Ulysses , Molly Bloom 's final soliloquy is above all a celebration of that freedom , and the freedom thus won . |
| 29 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 30 | That is above all a matter for him to decide ; but I very much admire the way in which he addressed the House with his habitual frankness . |