Example sentences of "it was all [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props .
2 Take punk , it was all about a tight nucleus of bands who were all mates .
3 ‘ When George Lynch , Steve Vai and all the others came to see me , it was all within a six-month period .
4 However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh .
5 It was all in a good cause .
6 It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise .
7 But it was all in a good cause .
8 It was all in a good cause .
9 However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner .
10 Yet it was all in a losing cause because England still finished the fourth day of the second Test 43 runs in arrears at 231 for eight in their second innings .
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