Sentence examples for it were after from inspiring English sources
(If it were, after all, a dictionary could define "liberal" as "a devotee of Volvos and caffè latte").
Christie's books are still third on the all-time bestseller lists, as it were, after the Bible and Shakespeare.
But television producers said that television was simply reflecting reality, that images of war and talk of it were, after all, everywhere.
That gay life has a complex, brilliant and tragic history seems often unknown to gay men born, as it were, after the war, when many rights had been won, and the terror of Aids contained.
Based on economic cooperation, the union has increasingly — and as it were after the fact — had to confront a barrage of moral, cultural and ethical issues like immigration and human rights.
Set in the New York of today and of 1882, the show brings to mind not so much a quaint period music box as a synthetic latter-day reproduction, the kind that plays "Feelings" as if it were "After the Ball".
