Example sentences of "[pron] is [prep] [det] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It blasts their song , which is of all the suns
2 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 .
3 And yet there is his tribute , as late as the Pisan years , to Blunt ; there is the fact that his friendship with Yeats did not end except with Yeats 's death ; and there is above all the fact that his disenchantment with mass democracy kept pace with Yeats 's , and culminated for him as for Yeats in the false alternative of Fascism .
4 Television is fine provided you are selective in your viewing , but not If it is on all the time .
5 It should enable the employees to develop their interpersonal skills as it is on these the employees must primarily depend in preventing violence .
6 It is above all the school which is felt to embody the idea of the village as something alive and enduring .
7 It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery .
8 ‘ 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 ? ’
9 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 .
10 Yes , it is against all the rules for two Picasso Triggers to share a tank .
11 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 . ’
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