Example sentences of "[be] all in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air is heavy enough for the ambiguities to be all in the skill of the players . |
| 2 | It 'll be all in the Post tomorrow . |
| 3 | It was all in the file . |
| 4 | But Pound with his invaluable naïveté really believed that the United States was ‘ a land of opportunity ’ ; that his nation 's glory was all in the future , and would be achieved if only Americans would sort out those achievements of European culture ( and of non-European cultures also ) which were worth their emulating and trying to surpass . |
| 5 | It was all in the darting style of their manager , Ossie Ardiles , without the penetrating vision . |
| 6 | ‘ That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now . |
| 7 | It was all in the open in those days . |
| 8 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 9 | But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’ |
| 10 | And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king . |
| 11 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 12 | No doubt the publishers would claim that it was all in the pursuit of the greater truth , in the way that the slimy tabloids and the unspeakable Sunday Times do when they are parading some particularly unpleasant piece of gossip . |
| 13 | However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned . |
| 14 | Do you know , my psychiatrist spent hour after hour convincing me that it was all in the mind , that nobody really was out to get me , that the world was n't conspiring against me … |
| 15 | It was all in the local newspaper . |
| 16 | But this was all in the past ! |
| 17 | It was all in the knees , he said , and he had liked to ski in better times . |
| 18 | ‘ First class , ’ said Cornelius , once the green canvas portmanteau and his personal baggage was all in the boot of the taxi . |