Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evocative China Heart , with its shifting layers of sound and teasing instrumental textures jumping dramatically into a demented tango , remained the best of the songs but none of them were at all suited to Fionna Duncan 's voice or delivery . |
| 2 | Sorry , I thought you said that each of them was in all the rest of them and each of them was coloured by the host . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems unfair that a few farmers should have to carry the cost of the consequences of what is after all a national policy . |
| 4 | It seems reasonable that they should share the cost of what is after all only a system of humane debt collection acting on their behalves . |
| 5 | Let's not , however , dwell on negative aspects of what was after all a further morale boost to our international prospects . |
| 6 | It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought he showed great courage in agreeing to be in what was after all an undergraduate revue . ’ |
| 8 | The treatment Rufus meted out to them was after all , the same . |
| 9 | But do n't dilly-dally for too long ; once it 's published we are all going to look a little risible if we have made no adjustments to what is after all known as being predominantly my own design of gallery . |
| 10 | Although the subject was never directly mentioned , it was subtly intimated in various ways that I was beholden to the Parsons for what was after all a free holiday , and was therefore expected to do rather more than my bit when it came to chauffeuring , chaperoning , shopping and suchlike chores . |
| 11 | ( One might have expected heterosexual young men to be more influenced by what was after all a film of exclusively heterosexual practices . ) |