Example sentences of "all over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resistance to the French troops who ‘ occupied ’ Spain under cover of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the national revolution against France which broke out all over unoccupied Spain came , therefore , from those whom the French commanders termed le petil peuple and from those local notables who were outside an administration manned by appointees of Godoy . |
| 2 | In the first-ever legal challenge to a space launch , a coalition of anti-nuclear groups charge that Galileo 's generators could rain radioactive waste all over eastern Florida if the shuttle were to explode during takeoff . |
| 3 | These results will step up pressure for roundtable talks between party and reformers , along the lines of those held last year all over Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | This one was more highbrow than most , bringing together economists from all over Eastern Europe and the West as well . |
| 5 | The traditional Diamond fighter kite as flown all over Eastern nations is remarkably controllable even on a single line , though its flight path is limited to a narrow sector of the downwind area . |
| 6 | In eastern Germany itself , subscribers are being linked via cellular or microwave radio to newly-installed digital networks , and similar patterns are emerging all over Eastern Europe . |
| 7 | God was working a miracle all over Eastern Europe in country after country , and at last they were free . |
| 8 | The example illustrated in Fig. 561 is a purely timber log structure of the type built all over eastern Europe till long after the Middle Ages . |
| 9 | All over Eastern Europe similar cases could be found , and a similar state of affairs probably holds sway elsewhere . |
| 10 | Certainly all over rural Essex everybody was killing pigs and everything surreptitiously . |
| 11 | ‘ They would n't be swarming all over Kentish Town , would they , those rats and flies ? ’ demanded Constance , opening the tall wooden gate to the back garden . |
| 12 | The following day , March 8 , actions took place all over Occupied Palestine . |
| 13 | It was a look copied by would-be sex kittens from sixteen to twenty-six all over Western Europe . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 15 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 16 | Left-wing parties are in trouble all over Western Europe . |
| 17 | It turns out now that reality is coming to countries all over western Europe , and although I 'm s I 'm sorry to see the difficulties that our colleagues and friends in western Europe are having erm they are beginning to realize that one or two aspirations of the so social contracts may be extremely expensive . |
| 18 | In about 1228 Henry moved to the papal court , where he wrote occasional verse for patrons from all over western Europe . |
| 19 | All over western Europe the trend was towards moderately fast growth up to about 1640 . |
| 20 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 21 | Says a pal : ‘ They were all over each other like a pair of love-struck teenagers . ’ |
| 22 | Later that week on The Gloria Hunniford Show we tried to explain what we 'd seen — and found ourselves , without prior consultation , wrestling each other to the ground and rolling all over each other . |
| 23 | Believe it or not , but we do not tread all over each other to get where we want to go — or at least the majority of us do n't ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You were all over each other on Monday morning . ’ |
| 25 | Managers are often shrieking you know about what 's happening next rather than you know , all their players are jumping with joy all over each other and you think and they 're saying get in your positions . |
| 26 | The arrival of Windows 3.1 , with its embedded True-Type font support , heralded a revolution in the number and quality of typefaces you could slap all over boring statements of accounts . |
| 27 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 28 | Editors threaten to resign , partisan journalists are foolhardy enough to stake their reputation on an act charting the following week , anxious record company operatives jam the switchboard — and all over one editorial decision about which photograph to use . |
| 29 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 30 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |