Example sentences of "[noun pl] be all a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise most of our efforts are all a waste of time and energy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Section 2.4 , you are going to tell LIFESPAN where its Process and Working Directories are , and the information fields for device name and directory names are all a maximum of 20 characters , including square brackets and colons . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Zhanna has no rivals as a female rock singer and is now among the top three Soviet women the others are All a Pugachova and Sophia Rotaru who reach the wider pop audience . |