Example sentences of "[is] all a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all a complete waste of time , is n't it ? ’ she added . |
| 2 | But we 've got no set limits , I Think it is all a personal judgment … |
| 3 | It 's really funny though this is all a new experience for me , I 've never really , you know it 's quite sort of funny analyzing it all do n't you think ? |
| 4 | It is all a great success . |
| 5 | This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty . |
| 6 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 7 | Yet I have known students to suppose that this is all a single problem , to be disposed of in a single breath . |
| 8 | All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse . |
| 9 | This is all a huge improvement on 10 years ago when the children practised their chess in a two-roomed flat with one wall reeking with damp . |
| 10 | How can this be if , as the right hon. Gentleman claims , it is all a British problem ? |
| 11 | From a higher point of perception , it is all a natural part of the outworking of the greater Mind . |
| 12 | This is all a horrible trick . |
| 13 | After the drama of Pye 's water wall , this is all a bitter disappointment and something of a disgrace . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all a confusing mess at the moment , ’ confessed an executive of one of the companies involved . |
| 15 | It 's all a bloody money making racket . |
| 16 | It 's all a chemical reaction . |
| 17 | It 's all a far cry from the days when Jason and Howard were on £40 a week YTS schemes , Gary was touring the cabaret circuit , and Robbie and Mark were still wondering what career direction to take . |
| 18 | It 's all a far cry from Harry Ramsden senior 's original restaurant — a humble green and white hut at the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 19 | It 's all a far cry from a year ago when after sitting in beside Fisher on a pre-Donegal test day , he suggested he might as well not start the rally . |
| 20 | It 's all a far cry from the last time they were at Heathrow — that was in July when they returned to Russia after a three-month holiday in Worcestershire . |
| 21 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 22 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's all a terrible mistake , ’ he told his audience . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's all a confounded puzzle . ’ |
| 25 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |
| 26 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , it 's all a long way off , ’ Joanna said cheerfully . |
| 28 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 29 | It 's all a long time ago now of course . |
| 30 | And I mean I know the screens are flickering in the Halifax and the Bradford and Bingley e even as we speak , and they do this fabulous analysis , you know you can see that to , to go for the repayment is not as efficient as the endowment , but it 's all a theoretical exercise . |