Example sentences of "was all [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always did think Jeremy was all right-once you got to know him . |
| 2 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 3 | While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire . |
| 4 | The age of the bucket-and-spade seaside special was all but dead by 1980 , so what filled the void ? |
| 5 | The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather . |
| 6 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 7 | In 1863 it was all but gutted by a disastrous fire , but mercifully the ashlar-faced east façade remained entirely intact with its projected balustraded bay , its shell-headed niches , its eccentric demonstration of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns in three tiers — all in Purbeck stone . |
| 8 | He was 27 years old , and though they now deny it , his group , The Doors , was all but finished . |
| 9 | By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P . |
| 10 | In the same year , the Hoppers ' Bel Air mansion was all but burnt down in a fire and virtually the whole of Dennis 's collection of poems and paintings were destroyed . |
| 11 | The coffee-bar era — twee and tame in hindsight — was all but gone , and the great new wave of stylism was heralded by rock stars , Indian mystics and Dr Timothy Leary , the high priest of the marijuana and acid society . |
| 12 | By 1968 , the clean-cut image of lads in suits and neatly trimmed hair was definitely for the birds , but not the Byrds , and the Monkees had all but swung from their last branch ; the exploitation of four young men who were plucked from audition lines and manufactured into an internationally famous foursome was all but over . |
| 13 | The sodium and calcium cations , Na+ and Ca2+ , would loosely bond to these oxygens occupying occasional holes and voids in the glass-forming network ; that the modifying cations might have a well-defined local structure was all but ruled out . |
| 14 | Her small-voiced reply was all but lost in the wind . |
| 15 | On entering the solar , Joan was reminded of that other visit and what had come after — and was all but overwhelmed by distress . |
| 16 | Admittedly the attacking Scots had a planned assault to carry out , but in the circumstances keeping to the plan was all but impossible . |
| 17 | Despite their preponderance in numbers still — for probably not a great many had been slain — fleeing in all directions as they had done , horseless and with few if any senior commanders , it was all but inconceivable that they could re-form and offer any coherent opposition . |
| 18 | She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down . |
| 19 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 20 | Clinton 's victory was all but assured by the youth vote . |
| 21 | Last week 's meeting of the borough 's policy and finance committee was all but devoid of dissenting voices , a mood summed up by one Labour councillor afterwards : ‘ What 's the point of arguing ? |
| 22 | All sound was suffocated , and the light from street lamps was all but smothered . |
| 23 | Basketball was all but taken over by black players ; grid-iron football became a platform for such star performers as Jim Brown and O. J. Simpson and baseball , to a lesser extent , absorbed many black players of distinction , including Hank Aaron and Willie Mays , the number one and number three leading home-run hitters , after Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar in 1947 . |
| 24 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 25 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 26 | The havoc was all but over . |
| 27 | There was a feeling , after the week 's break , that the Council was all but over . |
| 28 | It was a tall , square room , facing towards the back of the house and garden , and it was full and overflowing with a profusion of the most diverse and wonderful objects , so full that the room 's function for it was , beneath all , a bedroom — was all but concealed . |
| 29 | The sepoys must be well aware that the garrison 's ammunition was all but finished . |
| 30 | In the early days of archaeology , the dividing line between archaeologists and treasure hunters was all but invisible . |