Example sentences of "was [prep] all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 2 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The theology of the group was sufficiently united by the fact that , amid a secular intelligentsia , it was after all a theology . |
| 6 | This was after all a period of full employment and marked growth in people 's real earnings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Intelligent , sensitive and artistic , with a certain diffidence which added to his charm , he was above all a man of absolute integrity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Basil was above all a seeing person of sensibility and perception , responding spontaneously to every aspect of the visual world . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This drop in mortality was above all a drop in infant mortality . |