Example sentences of "was all a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In earlier years , is it true that you attended a Senior Management Seminar as a representative of the International Sports Company , ( Dunlop , Slazenger , Carlton , Litesome ) , and stated that you had the two finest wooden rackets in the world and that you had no intention of following the fibreglass and graphite racket trend as it was all a flash in the pan ? |
| 2 | It was all a kind of madness , and Waugh did indeed go mad in the mid-1950s . |
| 3 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
| 4 | It was all a question of balance . |
| 5 | She says that it was all a question of remembering rules and methods . |
| 6 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
| 7 | Would n't you say that was all a man needed ? ’ |
| 8 | To have important business in one 's life and such a woman to return to : that , surely , was all a man could ask for ? |
| 9 | That was all a year ago . |
| 10 | This was all a nightmare from which she must one day awake . |
| 11 | He fell to thinking of the shape in the well-pit , and then dropped into a drowsy half-dream , in which El-ahrairah said that it was all a trick of his to disguise himself as Poison-tree and put the stones in the wall , to engage Strawberry 's attention while he himself was getting acquainted with Nildro-hain . |
| 12 | Which was all a pretence . |
| 13 | ‘ They tried to explain that it was only sand and it was all a stunt , but it was lit up with radioactivity signs and we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously . ’ |
| 14 | But it was all a bluff . |
| 15 | I thought nothing of it ; it was all a part of the selection process and the more extreme it proved itself to be , the happier I felt , for I was enjoying the feeling of succeeding and managing while others failed . |
| 16 | We seemed a million miles from the Weddell Sea and that ice-encrusted vessel , but I had a feeling now that this was all a part of the voyage to come . |
| 17 | It was all a part of his arrogant manner , but once more Robbie felt that unaccountable weakness invade her bones . |
| 18 | Then it was all a lie . |
| 19 | ‘ You said — you made me believe — It was all a lie , was n't it ? |
| 20 | It was all a gag really . |
| 21 | It was all a smokescreen to make them believe that the Clarion Call had been lost at sea . |
| 22 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 23 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 24 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 25 | I thought it was all a plot ! |
| 26 | Perhaps it was all a dream . |
| 27 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 28 | It was all a dream , or he was n't properly awake . |
| 29 | " It was all a dream " is the worst possible ending to a story of a nightmare by day . |
| 30 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |