Example sentences of "it [is] all [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents .
2 Erm but in the end it 's all estates division anyway .
3 If you compare it with other departments , if you talk to people who do English and stuff , and they know all their tutors by their first names ; I mean , it 's nothing like that here , it 's all Dr So-and-So — I mean , half the lecturers , I did n't even know what their second names were , let alone their first names — maybe that 's just a result of physics , nothing to do with them .
4 Yeah , but then you , that impression made me think that all , it 's all South Africa , which , which was why
5 But because we , we sort of account for just our territory , it 's core territory , and our territory accounts for forty percent of revenue , there 's an awful lot of accounts registered , so Jenny does n't get any , hardly any time at all to actually go off and , and do any cold calling or anything like that , it 's all B M S.
6 One , the one section , one section of it , it 's all women clothes and lace ware and beautiful clothes and so on , you know it 's a market but you know and little places of pottery and so on and then the next section you go down this old market , there 's a old big square and you walk on there and you 're talking about , you go to buy avocados over here , you 're buying sixty and seventy pence for one , and you 're paying sixty pence for about bloody six over there
7 Nowadays it 's all Nirvana imports and ‘ Needed .
8 It 's all evening weekends you know .
9 NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression
10 shorthand it 's all shorthand notes .
11 it 's all office work
12 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 .
13 It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk .
14 Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’
15 In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros .
16 It 's all kiddies stuff other than those .
17 It 's all ground cover and
18 It is all priority work now .
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