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

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1 Surely there should be no more class conflict it should be all class er cooperation , working together .
2 It must be all bravado .
3 There must be all sorts of things she could try .
4 Even so , it must be all balls , a mirage massaged from statistics .
5 His obstinacy up to now might be all bravado .
6 There might be all sorts of things about me … ’
7 They might be all sorts of sub-contractor .
8 They 'll be all night counting to get the results in from all the .
9 ‘ There 'll be all sorts of rumours flying around , ’ he said .
10 " I may have to go back to the bank for an hour or so — there 'll be all sorts of things piling up on my desk .
11 YOU 'LL BE ALL WRIGHT Says Millwall chief
12 there 'll be all sort of interruptions and
13 It 'll be all hands on deck from now on , ’ Moran told the girls as they sat over a late breakfast .
14 The firm abandoned the idea that it could be all things to all people and decided to focus on identified areas of expertise examples are the legal profession , building societies and the construction industry — and build a reputation for quality of service by becoming pre-eminent in those fields .
15 Training at Kingsholm could be all ticket in future if the crowds for this week 's visit of England is anything to go by …
16 ‘ Be Aggressive ’ ( all about swallowing semen ! ) could be all trousers and no brain but instead the lyrics reek of understanding : ‘ Tall and reckless/Ugly seed/Reach down my throat/You filthy bird/That 's all I need . ’
17 But if you went in the horse box on your single you 'd be all day getting there .
18 my Lord I , I suppose the answer to that is yes , it could be on the facts , it could be that if there was in a free market then they 'd be all sorts of varieties of clause whereby the name and kept the agent funds , erm maybe
19 they 'd be all sorts of ways in which they could of kept the agented funds , erm they could of been , but it 's hard to imagine that , that
20 you 'd be all pooey !
21 Chicken weed ( Stellaria media ) , All Hail or siderites ( This may be All Heal ( see earlier ) or may be Galeopsis tetrahit ) , Sea Pinck ( Armeria maritima ) , and Tormentil ( Potentilla erecta ) .
22 Dublin may be all heart and soul , a cracking lad who 'll give 110 per cent .
23 It may be all smiles … but really it 's war .
24 There may be all kinds of professional practices which frail and inarticulate older people hate , but which , without support , they would be unable to articulate .
25 There may be all sorts of social and economic difficulties affecting the family of which the school is unaware .
26 YOU 'D be forgiven for thinking that LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) — translated it means ‘ Lovers on the Pont Neuf ’ — would be all hearts and flowers .
27 It would be all vapour and clouds and rising air to him .
28 Would be all D twenty two .
29 Of course it was not possible to devise a service that would be all things to all people : some of the needs would be inconsistent with others , some were already being addressed in other projects , some were less crucial .
30 If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth .
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