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

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1 It 's all evening weekends you know .
2 shorthand it 's all shorthand notes .
3 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 .
4 In Salvador , it 's all death squads , guerilleros , sombreros .
5 But after that , well , it was all sea breezes .
6 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 .
7 And it was all girdle scones scones muffins cream scones currant scones pancakes crumpets treacle crumpets treacle pancakes and all this .
8 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 .
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