Example sentences of "be all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 're all mates , ’ he says simply .
2 TRUE GRIT CO-ORDINATION , TECHNICAL ABILITY AND NERVE — THEY 'RE ALL SKILLS NECESSARY FOR CLIMBING QUALITY GRITSTONE , AS BILL MCKEE EXPLAINS
3 college is adult education , and the fact that you 're all adults the relationship between you and the lecturers is not the same between you and teachers .
4 Cos they 're all passwords that protect the system .
5 They 're all repeats those specials .
6 They 're , they 're all repeats but
7 ‘ They 're all Mozart .
8 But they 're all users , moulders , deceivers .
9 If you happened to be in Hyde Park on October 21st , you may have seen celebrities like Gloria Hunniford , Lyndsey De Paul , James Coburn and Roger Daltrey with spade in hand in aid of the Prince of Wales Trust ( they 're all devotees of Paul Mitchell products , I 'm sure ! ) .
10 That 's right but but you would n't say that they 're all Derbies Tony would you not really I would n't have thought so anyway .
11 ‘ Anyway , we 're all Europeans now — are n't we ? ’ she mimicked his own phrasing .
12 He said : ‘ We 're all professionals .
13 They 're all pros !
14 You 're all day inside in school .
15 We 're all salesmen then , armed with brochures , videos and amusing anecdotes .
16 So we 're , we 're , we 're we 're all communists , right , we 've got ta agree on that .
17 They 're all top-notchers . ’
18 Aye but he was behind the this cos they 're all in the in the same boat you know , they 're all families , family affair is n't it .
19 Left : ‘ As we 're all artists , we mix paint colours ourselves .
20 That 's okay , they 're all pins .
21 They 're all Copts . ’
22 And they 're all Copts .
23 ‘ They 're all Copts , ’ said Nikos , but went to look in his files .
24 have to do all of them , anybody 'll think that we 're all Belgians .
25 I think all the lads are the same , they 're all kind of into-themselves people , not loud or anything which I think is nice .
26 Believe or not I could be one of the younger ones in my forties , they 're all kind of past that .
27 They 're all scientists really , plus businessmen .
28 ‘ Well , they 're all scientists at Cambridge .
29 ‘ No , I 'm sure they 're all scientists . ’
30 I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century .
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