Example sentences of "be [prep] all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We dedicate this cross to be to all a symbol of his suffering and his victory . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is after all a film about a mother and daughter relationship . |
| 4 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 5 | But Best , spiky and articulate though he is , is above all a pragmatist . |
| 6 | The technical survey is above all a category of book in which the writer will have closely observed the material discussed . |
| 7 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What learning process — a sort of out-of-school education in life itself — is above all a study in embarrassment ; and the embarrassable hero is abundant in comedy and alive outside it , even in the final awesome scene of Golding 's Lord of the Flies . |
| 12 | ‘ Liverpool is above all a party place , ’ Dawn said . |
| 13 | In my judgment the present crisis is above all a crisis regarding the legitimacy of the system itself . |
| 14 | It is above all a crisis of and for British capitalism , but it is one in which the working class and its organisations have been unable to mount an effective resistance , let alone develop an effective struggle for a socialist solution : Conservative ideas and values may not be pervasive amongst working-class people , but they were sufficiently popular in 1983 to deliver 32 per cent of trade unionists ' votes to the Conservative Party . |
| 15 | Backed by nearly 200 years experience and boatbuilding tradition , a Moody is above all a boat you know you can trust . |
| 16 | For this is above all a discourse which ties a congenital link between origins and destinies , and which draws on images of birth and blood , the functions of the body and sexual reproduction , kinship and filiation , to do so . |
| 17 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 18 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology . |
| 22 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 23 | By then the conventional restraints of courtesy were felt to have had their day , and outlived it : the New Critic was above all a rebel , even a terrorist . |
| 24 | Eden was above all a diplomat of the classical school , though one whose command of his emotions was not always what it should have been . |
| 25 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 26 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 27 | The raw material of his experience was transmuted into story — for whether he was working in the poetic or prose medium , Masefield was above all a story-teller . |
| 28 | Basil was above all a seeing person of sensibility and perception , responding spontaneously to every aspect of the visual world . |
| 29 | Ho seems to have remained in Kunming until 1945 where he cultivated the OSS , portraying himself as a Communist who was above all a nationalist . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |