Example sentences of "[vb base] it [be] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people criticise this style and say it 's all a lie , they take one quick look in through the door and they say that we are all acting madly to conceal some great sadness from ourselves . |
| 2 | It did n't seem too distressed by life in the aviary with the other birds , although I imagine it was all a bit of a come-down for this once proud and merciless hunter of the skies . |
| 3 | ‘ Look , Blanche , I know it 's all a mess . |
| 4 | You know it 's all a load of balls but you ca n't work out who 's doing what to whom . |
| 5 | I have friends who worry that I do n't eat well and regularly enough but I suppose it is all a continuation of the habits formed when I was a one-woman farmer . |
| 6 | I suppose it 's all a question of balance as Mark says . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I gather it was all a bit sudden . ’ |
| 8 | But it 's such shame cos it 's , I mean it 's such a chance of a lifetime I just wish the trouble |
| 9 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
| 10 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
| 11 | A middle-aged working-class woman commented : ‘ I think it 's all a bit silly — Kings and Queens in wartime . |
| 12 | I think it 's all a bit complicated for me ! |
| 13 | Well , you see , I think it 's such a masterpiece in itself , that there 's just nothing to be done . |
| 14 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's such a shame . |
| 16 | I think it 's such a shame that he 's gone and put that wretched wirenetting fence so close to the road |
| 17 | Sometimes I look at it and think it 's such a waste . |
| 18 | You think it is all a matter of love and loving , of care and caring … |
| 19 | ‘ I s'pose it 's all a question o' roots , ’ he said quietly . |
| 20 | To strive , to seek , to butch it out- it 's all a question of willpower . |