Example sentences of "it [be] all [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents . |
| 2 | It 's all evening weekends you know . |
| 3 | NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression |
| 4 | shorthand it 's all shorthand notes . |
| 5 | it 's all office work |
| 6 | Another , a business woman , often under considerable pressure , managed to come to an arrangement with her voluble but good-humoured mother , that she could terminate any of their telephone conversations speedily if necessary , without giving offence , simply by saying , ‘ Well , I 'm afraid it 's all action stations here now , so I 'll have to say goodbye ’ ; and it worked remarkably well . |
| 7 | It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’ |
| 9 | In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros . |
| 10 | It 's all ground cover and |
| 11 | It is all priority work now . |
| 12 | But after that , well , it was all sea breezes . |
| 13 | But there were certainly trolley buses when I went there in nineteen thirty one and trolley buses first came in in nineteen twenty three and it was all trolley buses by nineteen twenty six . |
| 14 | Er it was all home security systems . |
| 15 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 16 | days you see , like I was out Monday I was busy all day Monday and then I Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday here yet I was busy , but it was all brain work |
| 17 | And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this . |
| 18 | On the second floor it was all the scones and tea bread and currant bread and on the top floor it was all confectionery work and sponge making and what have you and pies . |
| 19 | They it was all piece work , there . |
| 20 | Well , I could go to the casting and asked him to put the pattern in and fire it for it , to cut the sand out like that , you know so that the metal 'd run in like that and you 'd got the big head as you wanted , you know and er it 'd take you like castings with the machine and all that sort of thing , it was all hand stuff you know and yeah |
| 21 | There was no snow ploughs in those days , it was all hand cut if they were cutting drifts it was manual labour . |
| 22 | it was a it was all business people and you 're talking about |
| 23 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 24 | And the week before it was all Christmas stuff was still in there . |