Example sentences of "[pron] be by all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Vadim Medvedev also indicated there were no plans to set the record straight about what happened at the December 9 meeting of the Central Committee — which was by all accounts a turbulent one — by publishing the minutes . |
| 2 | At the summit , which was by all accounts an exceptionally heated affair , President Mubarak broke with Arab tradition and forced through a majority vote , rather than wait for the emergence of a unanimous compromise . |
| 3 | As you know , it was uncannily accurate and she is by all accounts a crashing snob . |
| 4 | They were by all accounts , cultured and responsible people who wished the child to die in as painless a way as possible . |
| 5 | A real friendly fellow he were by all accounts , bought 'em all drinks . ’ |
| 6 | It was by all accounts a fairly heated debate , with interventions from the Government benches , including two from Nyerere . |
| 7 | It was by all accounts a good match and fair weather was maintained throughout . |
| 8 | Warnie , though he was by all accounts a most delightful and courteous companion , was a clear case of arrested development . |
| 9 | But this past winter , when the A team job returned to him following injury to Martyn Moxon , he was by all accounts a revelation . |
| 10 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 11 | It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon . |
| 12 | Hard by to the south of the lower lake is the huge upstanding molar of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau , grimly handsome with , on its eastern slopes , what is by all accounts one of the Pyrenees ' largest populations of izard . |
| 13 | Mandela had what was by all accounts a successful meeting with the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on July 4 , describing her afterwards as an " enemy of apartheid " . |