Example sentences of "[be] all in [art] [noun] " 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 I 'm all in a knot , I 've got the runs , I ca n't keep anything in .
4 The money was all in a pot .
5 A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world .
6 She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later .
7 For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key .
8 ‘ First class , ’ said Cornelius , once the green canvas portmanteau and his personal baggage was all in the boot of the taxi .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ That was all in the past , Aunt Nessy , ’ Charles put in now .
12 However , although that was all in the past the memory of it lingers on whenever a match between the two countries is mentioned .
13 But this was all in the past !
14 It was all in the file .
15 And it was all in the days before credit cards , when hire purchase was king .
16 It was all in the knees , he said , and he had liked to ski in better times .
17 Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind .
18 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 …
19 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 .
20 But when I saw Bullitt , I thought , ‘ This was n't the script either , it was all in the director 's head . ’
21 It was all in the open in those days .
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