Example sentences of "was [prep] all [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the switch was off all the time , the output would be zero . |
| 2 | Robert 's birthday is in June , and for a number of years , his birthday treat was for all the family to go to Cambridge on the bus , to go punting on the Cam , and then to have a strawberry and cream tea . |
| 3 | ‘ The success of the operation was worth all the suffering ’ |
| 4 | It was worth all the effort just to see the bird do its stuff , and enjoy the indescribable thrill of so many chases . |
| 5 | Dressing for the afternoon , she wondered what Mrs Darrell was like , and whether she was worth all the tohu-bohu of preparing a slap-up tea , and being formally ‘ At Home ’ , which had resulted in even more work for McAllister , as Sally-Anne was increasingly beginning to think herself when she was being a maid of all work . |
| 6 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 7 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology . |
| 11 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 13 | And since literacy was a prime requirement , type-setting was of all the manual trades the nearest to teaching , governessing and clerking : traditionally the only hopes for educated girls who needed to earn a living . |
| 14 | is , there was a big blanket over the door then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you , and I sat there and the stairs come down , the open stairs come into the room and here is an old brick fire place |
| 15 | I expect he was like all the rest indoors , could n't find his way out of a paper bag . |
| 16 | But in the end he was like all the rest . |
| 17 | Anyway that 's all been sorted out and that 's what the problem was with all the work permit riders , coming down in you know , in points . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Basil was above all a seeing person of sensibility and perception , responding spontaneously to every aspect of the visual world . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This drop in mortality was above all a drop in infant mortality . |
| 27 | There he was above all an observer of life , carrying on — forgive the pun those observations into the characters he played . |
| 28 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 29 | The spectacle of the café-concert was above all the home of disorder , and particularly of the disruption of the orderly bourgeois habitus . |
| 30 | It was above all the smile of dramatic irony , of those who have privileged information . |