Example sentences of "[prep] all [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he still can not resist , all these years later , a spiky dig — ‘ but most gratifying of all was that the journalists who condemned me were proved so utterly wrong ’ . |
| 2 | The worst thing of all was that no one was talking . |
| 3 | What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski . |
| 4 | And the bitterest irony of all was that he himself was a victim . |
| 5 | Perhaps most remarkable of all was that this system of government was based on a written Constitution , drawn up by a group of politicians at the end of the 18th century and only altered on rare occasions since ( there had been 19 Amendments to the Constitution by 1920 ) . |
| 6 | Such great open-air markets can be seen at Northampton , Newark and Leicester , for example , and most notable of all was that at Nottingham , where the vast triangular market place covers five-and-a-half acres and was once even larger . |
| 7 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 8 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 9 | What the team demonstrated first of all was that there are attitudes to safety such as ‘ accidents will happen ’ and , when contractors are involved , ‘ accidents will definitely happen . ’ |