Example sentences of "[pron] be all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 2 | Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen . |
| 3 | You 're all a bunch of feminists , I feminists ’ , ’ said one student , Robert Leclerc . |
| 4 | You 're all a bunch of feminists , I feminists ’ , ’ said one student , Robert Leclerc . |
| 5 | Voloshin argued against him and then Modi interrupted : ‘ You 're all a lot of bloody innocents . |
| 6 | You were all a bit concerned I suppose ? |
| 7 | Many people reckon we are all a bit loony spending all our spare time going round the non-League grounds of the M/SV but I can think of one really good reason for doing it . |
| 8 | But what Roger Cook and his researchers entirely failed to do was to use the interesting current developments within WWF to highlight a crucial debate of which we are all a part — namely the values that should now guide the work we do in our respective movements , and how to make those values germane and relevant to people the world over . |
| 9 | The light greens by and large believe that the system of which we are all a part is perfectible , that it could be reformed in such a way as to create a sustainable , environmentally friendly way of living . |
| 10 | We 're all a bit fed up , but it 'll pass . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're all a bit mad but several have responded by saying they 've now got something to live for , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , we 're all a bit nosy , are n't we ? ’ |
| 13 | What I 'd like say with these guys there 's no right or wrong style , there 's no good or bad , we 're all different erm and we f we 're all a combination of each as well . |
| 14 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 15 | " At lunch we were all a bit subdued , " he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They are all a bit ‘ Out of my way — I 'm king of the road ’ . |
| 18 | They are all a type of experimentation , which was outline as being an important part of learning in the opening chapter . |
| 19 | The cruel would say they are all a load of balls and the more open-minded that they have not had a fair trial ( in cricket terms : a decent net ) . |
| 20 | But they 're all , they 're all a variation on a theme , but if you , you know what I mean , if you 've got the closes in your head you can press buttons |
| 21 | ‘ They 're all a bit alike , are n't they ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There is a ‘ deposition ’ which seems an awfully good beginning for something : they 're all a bit like that : you know : awfully good beginnings . |
| 23 | Ee , they 're all a bit tired , are n't they ? ’ |
| 24 | somebody bought in large quantities er in Finland and started making up in a factory in Harlow erm , at one time , erm , they 're all a bit |
| 25 | And you go back to light a sandbag , and there they all are , and they 're all a bit hot , it 's about , it 's like Hades , and there 's fork-lift trucks flying everywhere and you 've got pretty girls who in , in , in the team when you get down there and they start showing off , that 's alright , do n't mind that , and , and you 've got all these fork- lift trucks flying everywhere , and you 've got men carrying rolls of carpet and you 've got , you know , all this |
| 26 | but the er , at the joint meeting of course they 're all a bit subdued , cos they 're coming onto to well what 'll happened , cos I 've work up there , they 're much more gregarious than the bloke down here , so they 'll take the stuff out of especially when , so we 'll be doing it . |
| 27 | They 're all a delight for David Nicholson … |
| 28 | Part of , part of the furniture , yes what do you want , there 's no problem with parcels , and so again it becomes far less difficult to discuss erm , a business conversation , and sometimes it 's a conversation about football , and they 're all a load of complete , because that 's part of , er , that 's one of the joys of er , er , having been doing something for long enough to have got known within the , within the patch . |
| 29 | We tried lots of rehearsal spaces but they were all a rip off and totally out of the way . |
| 30 | To tell the truth , I think they were all a bit scared of him . |