Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] all [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council was all right for when times were good — ’ He shrugged . |
| 2 | But I was trained in an era when we were told that continental drift was all right for the unscientific geologists , but the " real " scientists — the physicists — said it was impossible . |
| 3 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 4 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 5 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 6 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 7 | I 'm glad the class was all right on 11 March and especially pleased that things are better for you and Bob ; also that there was such good news of your daughter . |