Example sentences of "it [is] all " in BNC.

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1 It 's all in a good cause .
2 it 's all impersonation — in the absence of a self , one impersonates selves , and after a while impersonates best the self that best gets one through .
3 Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay .
4 And it 's all so wonderful and idyllic .
5 But it 's all I ever wanted to do .
6 It 's all experience and that 's what you have to have a lot of before getting your own way about anything .
7 Assistant head of the hotel school , John Staples , adds : ‘ They wo n't be experts but they 'll have a good understanding of what it 's all about .
8 It 's all her fault . ’
9 Well , with the coffee it 's all a matter of putting the sugar in first and stirring well .
10 ‘ Stay in teaching , Dorothy , it 's all you know . ’
11 ‘ I do n't usually come up this way , it 's all a bit new to me , actually . ’
12 It 's all bubbles .
13 It 's all so strange .
14 ‘ It 's just I see all this pain and shit , and it 's all my fault . ’
15 It 's all so sudden for me .
16 It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’
17 It 's all this toing and froing , ’ said Don .
18 It 's all rather heavy , ’ Alan complained .
19 It 's all such a mess , ’ said Michael .
20 ‘ You really should n't believe those funny Green men , love , it 's all a scare to queer water privatization .
21 It 's all brilliant .
22 Suddenly it 's all thorns , she comes to a full stop , caught and blind in a thicket of thorns like Abraham 's sacrificial ram .
23 It 's all a big con .
24 It 's all part of the drive that she believes , will take her to the top of her forthcoming profession and to that end , she is not prepared to put a time limit on her arrival .
25 It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted .
26 It 's all done very quickly . ’
27 It 's all a question of what a writer can use , what the work in hand will let him use .
28 In fact there is no grip , it 's all drift , in this sequence , as illness brings back Stepan 's childhood Church Slavonic , mixed up with Quixotic politesse and flagrant falsifying of his own past , and cant about the Russian soul .
29 He might just as well have said : ‘ It 's all very well asking for more money for the railways , but if the volume of rail freight were doubled , it would still be only a mere 16 per cent of the rail-and-road total . ’
30 ( HOUSE COLLAPSES ) ’ 'Edward , it 's all in the timing , ’ Cicily Courtneidge once told him , ‘ so do your bit faster and then I 'll come on . ’
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