Example sentences of "[was/were] all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fforde makes much of the importance of archives and private correspondence as the means to discover ‘ true intentions ’ , so why did Austen Chamberlain not simply drop Hugh Cecil a note to let him know that his speeches in favour of tariffs and pensions were all a put-up job ? |
| 2 | To tell the truth , I think they were all a bit scared of him . |
| 3 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 4 | They were all a bit afraid of what Ifor would say if they did wrong . |
| 5 | One general practitioner , who works in a large multipartner practice in Worksop , said that the community care reforms were all a bit of a mystery . |
| 6 | You were all a bit concerned I suppose ? |
| 7 | " At lunch we were all a bit subdued , " he said . |
| 8 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 9 | We tried lots of rehearsal spaces but they were all a rip off and totally out of the way . |
| 10 | Hopefully , by the time the lingering effects of physical addiction have worn off , there will be sufficient group cohesion and peer pressure to persuade the sufferer to stay in treatment and thereby counter-act the urge to believe that the problems were all a lot of fuss about nothing . |
| 11 | They were all a pound . |
| 12 | The woman 's face staring at him , her footsteps as she ran off and the stench of the multi-tentacled creature were all a blur as he lapsed in and out of consciousness . |
| 13 | I 'd believe anything bad about anybody , if I did n't know they were all a load of bloody liars . ’ |
| 14 | In our squadron was a man I call an elderly because at the time he was about forty to forty five years old and we were all a bunch of kids . |
| 15 | I 've always been good at painting ; I 'd nearly finished my picture — which included the ark and a mountain when Miss began telling us how rainbows were all an illusion caused by sunlight and raindrops . |
| 16 | They were all an experiment . |
| 17 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 18 | It was all a kind of madness , and Waugh did indeed go mad in the mid-1950s . |
| 19 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 20 | It was all a question of balance . |
| 21 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 22 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 23 | Would n't you say that was all a man needed ? ’ |
| 24 | To have important business in one 's life and such a woman to return to : that , surely , was all a man could ask for ? |
| 25 | That was all a year ago . |
| 26 | This was all a nightmare from which she must one day awake . |
| 27 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 28 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 29 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 30 | But it was all a bluff . |