Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] all [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course was all down hill . |
| 2 | At first , the talk was all about King James and his court . |
| 3 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 4 | The next day the news of the murder was all over London . |
| 5 | In Total Recall ( with Schwarzenegger ) the scene was all about manipulation , about gaining power over him by being sexual . |
| 6 | Anyone outside looking up would think the room was all on fire . |
| 7 | ‘ I would have said , however , that the ill-feeling was all on Alain Gebrec 's part . |
| 8 | Raymond Floyd might have suggested that the match was all about sportsmanship and camaraderie but there was no disguising the feeling in the American camp when someone as eloquent as Tom Watson could state that he was " over here to kick some butt " . |
| 9 | The next day the news was all over Fontanellato that the woman had been found dead with a rope round her neck . |
| 10 | Then , the message was all about freedom , flexibility and legs , bared to the thigh in pelmet skirts , streamlined in skin-tight Lycra , or flashing in black opaque tights . |
| 11 | The pressure was all on Pippa Nolan then … she could n't afford to make one slip … one fence down would have lost it … her heart must have stopped when they rattled one but they kept their nerve and the lead to win Blenheim 's International Horse Trials |
| 12 | The introduction was all about X and Y chromosomes in embryology , and I fell asleep . |
| 13 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |