Example sentences of "all [art] [adj] talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never been particularly good at chatting up women although I 've always liked women and sex , so the idea of cutting out all the small talk seemed both convenient and appealing to me . |
| 2 | But if — and that was the general fear — that was not the case , then it was time to stop all the futile talk of coming retaliation and to end the war as soon as possible . |
| 3 | For all the pejorative talk of her being an ‘ ideologue ’ , however , she is a practical Conservative . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , for all the gloomy talk of tight budgets and an end to City lunches , the London firms managed to shrink their costs in 1990 by a mere 3% — less than Wall Street managed . |
| 5 | Despite all the iniquitous talk about the demise of the mainframe , he firmly believes that mainframe sales still prop up all other areas of activity at IBM . |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first ? ’ |
| 7 | I wonder what happened to all the sanctimonious talk about putting his family first for the first time in his life ? |
| 8 | For all the Conservative talk of ‘ rolling back the state ’ there has been a remarkable centralization of decision-making since 1979 . |
| 9 | Nora was relieved at this return of monetary caution ; it supplied the motif she had missed in all the previous talk . |
| 10 | Because what all the fine talk came down to was hard cash . |