Example sentences of "[vb base] it be [det] [art] [noun] " 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 | I suppose it 's all the chemicals they 're putting on . |
8 | ‘ Yes , I gather it was all a bit sudden . ’ |
9 | But it 's such shame cos it 's , I mean it 's such a chance of a lifetime I just wish the trouble |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I saw him when we got picked up off the I mean it was half a lifeboat we were left sitting on . |
12 | A middle-aged working-class woman commented : ‘ I think it 's all a bit silly — Kings and Queens in wartime . |
13 | I think it 's all a bit complicated for me ! |
14 | Oh we 'll leave it as , I think it 's all the way through |
15 | I do n't think it 's just the family , I think it 's all the hangers-on . |
16 | Well , you see , I think it 's such a masterpiece in itself , that there 's just nothing to be done . |
17 | 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 |
18 | ‘ I think it 's such a shame . |
19 | I think it 's such a shame that he 's gone and put that wretched wirenetting fence so close to the road |
20 | Sometimes I look at it and think it 's such a waste . |
21 | I think it 's half the point ! |
22 | You think it is all a matter of love and loving , of care and caring … |
23 | ‘ I s'pose it 's all a question o' roots , ’ he said quietly . |
24 | To strive , to seek , to butch it out- it 's all a question of willpower . |