Example sentences of "[conj] it be all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That seemed pretty profound , till I found another cinema where it was all violence , sex-and-violence , and violence . |
| 2 | Me , I 'm miserable that it 's all beginning . |
| 3 | Fourteen ninety nine Out of that it 's all bottles ey or most of them bottles . |
| 4 | What I 'm begging , especially our leaders so to speak , to do is to stop thinking that it 's all kind of a joke that 's being perpetrated by idiots or by of some sort against the public . |
| 5 | It 's not only that it 's all money in n it , that 's why |
| 6 | This is the , the awkward bit , that it 's all upside down . |
| 7 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 8 | When you look more closely at this apparently innocent use of words , it is easy to see that it is all part of a very carefully engineered process . |
| 9 | On a fast , gusty launch a wooden glider will treat you to a series of creaks and groans , and occasionally bangs , which are alarming until you realize that it is all pretence and that the structure is not in the least danger of breaking up . |
| 10 | Then there is toughened glass , which is homogeneous in the sense that it is all glass , but the outside , which is susceptible to cracks , is put into compression at the expense of a tension in the protected middle . |
| 11 | And that success led to television programmes about advertising , pages in the quality press about the media world , and , of course , the image that it is all Porsches , champagne and fun . |
| 12 | Should we then insist that it is all SEGLAB 's fault and sit back waiting for it to improve ? |
| 13 | It was heartfelt and deep , but Theo should not run off with the idea that it was all laughter and light and the cooing of turtle doves . |
| 14 | He might tell his loved ones that it was all hell out there , but the reality was different . |
| 15 | He has no teeth , so it is all gums and drool when he smiles . |
| 16 | ‘ So it 's all hearsay , is n't it ? |
| 17 | We started talking and it 's all figures flying , and if fact it 's that Casio three , eight , seven . |
| 18 | We had dinner in the Village : a french restaurant where the provençal dressing is warm ketchup , and it 's all candlelight and striped aprons and waiters with waxed moustaches who talk like Maurice Chevalier . |
| 19 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 20 | It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk . |
| 21 | Well , I suppose it is constructive in a way , but you never really see anything for it and it 's all routine . |
| 22 | But where she used to live the houses have been pulled down ooh a few years ago and it 's all shops now . |
| 23 | And it 's all imagination , this — ’ |
| 24 | It 's same in here , right through the room and all the way to the up the stairs , and it 's all Axminster . |
| 25 | Be be because you know it , it really is , it 's erm er it is sort of really we see it as sort of part of the confirmation programme really and your involvement in it , and it 's all sort of quite erm special to confirmation so it would be nice if you could be involved . |
| 26 | I 've got a large carrying case for an electronic organ keyboard er I want to sell , it 's it 'll take a keyboard erm forty one inches long by forty inches wide and four and a half inches deep and it 's all sort of shaped inside with the lining to the shape of the keyboard and nice strong box . |
| 27 | Did a little bit for the radio this morning in , Radio and Radio , and it 's all grist to the mill . |
| 28 | And it 's all hedgehogs and stuff like that . |
| 29 | That 's more than flock to watch Madonna OR Jackson at Wembley — and it 's all thanks to you . |
| 30 | And it 's all thanks to your friend Mike . ’ |