Example sentences of "[pers pn] is all a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is all a part of life relating to life , mind relating to mind .
2 It is all a question , he wrote , of what we owe ourselves .
3 It is all a question of mind over matter , ’ Davies says — ‘ just like Last Suspect .
4 It is all a question of time .
5 Perhaps it is all a question of timing , and that summer afternoon in 1921 was the moment when the linear impulse started its break through to public awareness .
6 It is all a question of being organised and having a plan ; after all , it takes a minute to tell the gardeners to spray this or frame that … ’
7 Well , maybe it is all a question of time .
8 It is all a question of respect and reputation — not just of the plaintiff as a human being , but as a worker — a public official , business executive , professional or performer .
9 For a show that wants to be warm and friendly , it is all a bit imposing .
10 It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition .
11 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 .
12 Sometimes you are fierce and angry but it is all a cover for the soft innocence inside you .
13 However , Barbara is first to discover it is all a façade .
14 Soon after signing it Barzani said , ‘ It is all a ruse .
15 It is all a matter of acclimatisation ... and practice .
16 So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation .
17 As you can see , it is all a matter of common sense yet hundreds of windsurfers are rescued off the British coastline each year .
18 It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel .
19 It is all a matter of degree .
20 It is all a matter of degree .
21 There is no sharp dividing-line between academic or professional courses on the one hand and general ones on the other ; indeed some of the broader courses involving several disciplines which have been mentioned already may well be thought of as general — it is all a matter of degree .
22 You think it is all a matter of love and loving , of care and caring …
23 But it is all a matter of language .
24 It is all a matter of cultural focusing .
25 It is all a matter of degree , of course , and much may depend on what communications have in fact passed between the persons concerned .
26 Fields get smaller and birch tree scrub predominates but it is all a Garden of Eden by Lewis standards .
27 ‘ Children sweeten labours , ’ he wrote ; and I suppose that is true , when it is all a labour of love .
28 T is all a muddle with letters from the banks and Mr. Jackson threatening murder and Mr. Chambers with his hair dropping out … ’
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