Example sentences of "is [prep] all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is after all a film about a mother and daughter relationship . |
| 3 | It is after all a suburb of Abingdon |
| 4 | But Best , spiky and articulate though he is , is above all a pragmatist . |
| 5 | The technical survey is above all a category of book in which the writer will have closely observed the material discussed . |
| 6 | For he who thinks to remain neutral is above all a sceptic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The EC is all kinds of things , good and bad , but it is above all a machine for producing proposed regulations embodied in documents . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Liverpool is above all a party place , ’ Dawn said . |
| 12 | In my judgment the present crisis is above all a crisis regarding the legitimacy of the system itself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Backed by nearly 200 years experience and boatbuilding tradition , a Moody is above all a boat you know you can trust . |
| 15 | 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 . |