Example sentences of "is all [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is all a question , he wrote , of what we owe ourselves .
2 It is all a matter of acclimatisation ... and practice .
3 All — his pride in his memory , his sense of the internationale of writers , painters , musicians , and the aristocrats , his study of form as technique ( no contours , no edges , intellectual concepts , but rounding , thrusting , as a splash of color , as Yeats described his aim in the Cantos … ) it is all a huge AESTHETICISM , ending in hate for Jews , Reds , change , the content and matter often of disaster , a loss of future , and in that a fatality as death-full as those for whom the atom bomb is Armageddon , not Apocalypse .
4 One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me .
5 Deciding which achievement was the most remarkable is all a matter of taste .
6 This is all a huge improvement on 10 years ago when the children practised their chess in a two-roomed flat with one wall reeking with damp .
7 Soon after signing it Barzani said , ‘ It is all a ruse .
8 ‘ It is all a question of mind over matter , ’ Davies says — ‘ just like Last Suspect .
9 ‘ Children sweeten labours , ’ he wrote ; and I suppose that is true , when it is all a labour of love .
10 It must have been the time of the miners ' strike and the three-day week , though the chronology is all a blur now .
11 After the drama of Pye 's water wall , this is all a bitter disappointment and something of a disgrace .
12 Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) .
13 So far as the Grand Junction Canal company itself is concerned , it is all a matter of inference and speculation .
14 The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ .
15 This is all a far cry from the cosy coffee morning , which is itself shorthand for a vast network of peer support groups in which women , who have ceased to be competitive for the first time in their lives , can find reassurance during a period of mindbending uncertainty .
16 It is all a very long way from the days of the preposterous proposition , when the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics forbade its members to accept jobs in the pharmaceutical industry ( see Chapter 6 ) .
17 As you can see , it is all a matter of common sense yet hundreds of windsurfers are rescued off the British coastline each year .
18 It is all a matter of taste , and more importantly , a matter of how an aroma makes you feel .
19 Fields get smaller and birch tree scrub predominates but it is all a Garden of Eden by Lewis standards .
20 It is all a question of time .
21 Perhaps it is all a question of timing , and that summer afternoon in 1921 was the moment when the linear impulse started its break through to public awareness .
22 The alarm calls , the social noises , the sexual or territorial ‘ come-hithers ’ or ‘ get thee hence ’ gestures — the whole spectrum of movement — is all a part of their language , a continuous expression of the inward patterns within the subtle tattvic mind configurations comprising each species .
23 From a higher point of perception , it is all a natural part of the outworking of the greater Mind .
24 It is all a part of life relating to life , mind relating to mind .
25 No doubt this is all a part of nature 's design to keep the community together , but of how a chimpanzee 's inner mind is structured , and of how they feel , we have little notion .
26 Sound is all a matter of vibration transmitted through the air from some object .
27 This is all a bit much for me .
28 Rotorua is all a bit different from Rochester , Redhill or Retford .
29 However it 's not true that their life is all a deceit .
30 It is all a matter of degree .
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