Example sentences of "[vb pp] all [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 2 | This has nothing to do with how policemen look nor even of never having heard of a bunch called James , who are apparently big stars , have their name emblazoned all over a chic t-shirt and of whom one had never heard till yesterday . |
| 3 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 4 | Both Jarlshof and Ness of Burgi have been covered in the thin film of oil which was deposited all over the southern part of Shetland . |
| 5 | American morels can be found all along the Canadian border . |
| 6 | It undoubtedly owes its early discovery by both scientists and the hobby to its distribution pattern ; it is found all along the main drainage of the Amazon in relatively accessible waters , unlike some of the more recent introductions ( eg A.nijsseni , A.macmasteri ) which have a very restricted range in small bodies of water off the beaten track . |
| 7 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 8 | The thin basal member of the Trias , only a few feet thick , can be found all round the Alpine chain . |
| 9 | Erogenous zones , the ones that respond quickest to sexual stimulation , are dotted all over the female form and in some of the most unlikely places . |
| 10 | Many objects offer clues that tell us how they were made — an air bubble in a piece of mouth-blown glass , or the tell-tale edge that the join in the mould has left all around a cast-iron object , or the impression of a paw print left by a stray cat on a Roman clay roof tile . |
| 11 | This has happened all over the Western world and we must now start to pick up the pieces . |