Example sentences of "all else " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all else I did n't want that . |
| 2 | When all else fails , a draw is awarded . |
| 3 | ‘ Above all else , you 've got to be 100 per cent committed to the job and , most importantly , to your dog , ’ Keith advised . |
| 4 | In this , the line ‘ Bon soir my little senorita , c'est magnifique / Au revoir , my little frauline baby , it 's so tragique , ’ , would qualify Ray , if all else failed , as a script-writer for ‘ Allo ‘ Allo . |
| 5 | They are conceived of as a last resort when all else fails , including a mandatory three-day cooling-off period and a further five days while a ‘ conciliation commission ’ will attempt to produce agreement between the parties . |
| 6 | As one Cabinet minister remarked , on the eve of yesterday 's crucial debate : ‘ This party is interested in power , above all else . |
| 7 | It was a characteristically defiant performance coming from the leader of a party trailing 8-10 points in the opinion polls , her own satisfaction ratings slumped beaneth her opponent 's , and after a week which had rocked the credibility of her government 's economic policy , on which all else depends . |
| 8 | If you ca n't read a book or a paper you 're fucked , because there 's fuck all else to do . |
| 9 | ‘ The purpose of man , ’ it declared , ‘ is to praise God , and this , man 's proper work , remains when all else is past or put aside . ’ |
| 10 | it does not indeed oblige us to assert that in 1963 , unlike 1300 , theology is education and all else vanity . |
| 11 | This can vary water by water , but often the last two or three hours of daylight are crucial and can bring a short burst of action after all else has failed . |
| 12 | Here and there a tall Tal tree ( a kind of palm ) stands out , all else is submerged . |
| 13 | People want cars above all else . |
| 14 | In most years , the blunt instrument of the percentage cut is used to close the final gap when all else has failed . |
| 15 | Mr Hussein was embraced by the West in the 1980s because he was trying to contain the mad mullahs across the border ; all else was ignored . |
| 16 | From his digs at 113 Cowley Road , Thomas wrote his first letter to Harry Hooton : ‘ My dear Mr. Hooton , I matriculated today before the Vice-Chancellor of the University , and , in consequence , I am left a little freer of time and heart : for until then , I feared failure in what turned out to be the easy matric. exam. , and worked to the exclusion of almost all else : which is the explanation of time and heart . ’ |
| 17 | Apart , however , from his existence as a corporeal omnipotent first cause , all else about God was a matter of faith . |
| 18 | Their humour did not consist of mere jokes ( though they could make those too ) but in their whole attitude to life , as the violin runs through the Benedictus of the Missa Solemnis like a golden thread from which all else rises and falls ; an unforced humour which has known tragedy , and learnt to surmount it . |
| 19 | As I became more and more obsessed by him , and as he absorbed more and more of my being , all else seemed to start retreating into a permanent , one-dimensional background , against which only he and I stood out as more than stick figures . |
| 20 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 21 | If all else failed I would have to write to the Pope . |
| 22 | The columns of our newspapers and weekly journals are filled with book reviews or booksy gossip in which the hacks who write them seem determined before all else to carry on the one continuing tradition of their ignoble trade : ignorance . |
| 23 | Every leaf and twig and trail of creeper was held in a radiant harmony , at peace with all else , trilling like blackbirds . |
| 24 | North was proud of his plan ; but then he himself , as several associates noticed , seemed to be desperate to die for his country , even in the course of ‘ Project Democracy ’ if all else failed . |
| 25 | Indeed , if all else had failed — if the supplies had seldom been delivered on time , if the contras had declined to fight , if the money had gone astray , if the planes had crashed — the cause was still something that was simply right , whatever sort of mess had resulted . |
| 26 | Pen wished , above all else , to see a baby born . |
| 27 | In a vast ocean , empty of all else but one 's own boat and a tiny speck on the horizon , attention is drawn to the other boat . |
| 28 | It may seem a little curious that these are the problems which have exercised the minds of so many of the writers on Mary Queen of Scots above all else . |
| 29 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 30 | All else was foreign , strange , unexpected . |