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

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1 And director Patrick Garland gives these tender moments ( notably Lockwood West wistfully singing ‘ It Were All Green Hills ’ ) as much emphasis as the noisy production numbers .
2 Now it 's all Boy Scout stuff and bivouacs and tents .
3 Erm but in the end it 's all estates division anyway .
4 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 .
5 Yeah , but then you , that impression made me think that all , it 's all South Africa , which , which was why
6 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.
7 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
8 Nowadays it 's all Nirvana imports and ‘ Needed .
9 It 's all evening weekends you know .
10 NME 's punk enfant terrible Tony Parsons in 1992 : now it 's all Apple Mac and Armani , then it was chiefly amphetamine and aggression
11 shorthand it 's all shorthand notes .
12 it 's all office work
13 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 .
14 It 's the same with most women I said , and it 's all paper talk .
15 Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’
16 In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros .
17 It 's all kiddies stuff other than those .
18 It 's all ground cover and
19 It is all priority work now .
20 But after that , well , it was all sea breezes .
21 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 .
22 Er it was all home security systems .
23 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
24 It was all Dorset words , I mean that was really be beautiful !
25 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
26 And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this .
27 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 .
28 They it was all piece work , there .
29 It was all Uncle Willi 's fault that Karl was so angry with her .
30 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
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