Example sentences of "be all [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As far as much of the rest of the world is concerned , we 're all just a bunch of queers .
2 ‘ We 're all just a bunch of crazies , ’ being one of them .
3 In Chapter 1 we argued that conscious awareness , the images and representations that people use to communicate with each other and the various forms of deliberate planning and foresight which they use are all partly a result of the myriad social relationships in which they are caught up , and partly a product of deep-rooted instincts and emotions .
4 The shops , Marina and Conference Centre are all just a stroll away .
5 Looking at the evidence leads many scientists to believe that God made the world , whereas other scientists look at the same evidence and believe that it all happened by chance and that the world , the solar system , you and me are all just the result of a lucky string of enormous flukes !
6 These composers are not coldly exploiting their audiences ' kindness ; they are all equally the victims of the going ideology .
7 I remember one simplistic piece of Greater London Council propaganda which said ‘ We are all either the victims or the perpetrators of racism ’ .
8 It is all largely a matter of trial and error to find the string that will suit you best .
9 If it is all just a matter of philosophy , then anyone can voice an opinion on it , and there may be differing views of what ‘ humanity ’ consists of behind it all .
10 It is all really a matter of manual dexterity and self-confidence .
11 It 's all just a myth .
12 ‘ But it 's all just a coincidence ! ’ said Angalo .
13 Doubtless it 's all just a safety precaution and will come to nothing .
14 Dear Julie gets drunk and for some bizarre reason suddenly starts feeling you up under the table while we 're nibbling our cheese and biscuits , and making pathetic double-entendres , and attacks you outside the bathroom ; totally unprovoked , of course , and it 's all just the drink talking .
15 No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or
16 Ruth was beginning to feel it was all just a dream ; part of her mind felt detached , quite separate from her body .
17 Meanwhile , a self-declared ring-leader , Paul Taylor , shouting from the roof tops , has claimed that it was all just a sit-in protest that got out of control .
18 Helen replied enigmatically that it was all just a question of experience .
19 But he was n't frightened , because he knew that it was all just a joke , a little comedy of the kind fathers like to play with their sons .
20 Maybe it was all just a game to him , these stirring pulses and loaded glances , and chemical reactions .
21 It was all just a sort of angry joke because the rest of the gang , and Ashton in particular , would n't agree with him about the best way to fill holes in .
22 It was all just a moment 's mental aberration !
23 The trouble is my theory 's looking shakier all the time because McDunn 's convinced me it really was all just a smoke-screen : there is no Ares project , never was any Ares project , and Smout in his prison in Baghdad is n't connected to the guys that died ; it was just somebody coming up with a clever conspiracy theory , just a way of getting me to go to remote places and wait for phone calls and deprive me of an alibi while gorilla man did something horrible to somebody else somewhere else .
24 It was all rather a relief .
25 For an unpretentious suburban Gasthof it was all rather a surprise .
26 At the end he asked me about myself , curtly , as if it was all rather a bore .
27 He started to smile , teasing me , and for the second time I was convinced that someone would flourish it back to existence , that it was all only a game .
28 It was all only an excuse .
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