Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was this hegemonic combination of a mighty domestic economy , a progressive ruling class ( in comparison with most others actually existing ) , and at least some desirable culturalideological features particularly attractive to ‘ modernizing ’ elites , that opened the global door to them and ensured the creation , persistence and often aggrandisement of social classes in countries all over the world willing and eager to adopt their transnational practices . |
| 2 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
| 3 | We assist in the movement of products and raw materials between nations all over the world . |
| 4 | If you are so concerned with the kindly nurture of infants , I suggest you turn your journalistic — conscience — to those children begotten by inadequate stupid parents being reared in appalling conditions in slums all over the country . |
| 5 | The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world . |
| 6 | The worship of , or professed belief in , a god of some kind is to be found in varying degrees of sincerity all over the world . |
| 7 | Most of all , he was a campaigner for human rights for writers all over the world . |
| 8 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 9 | There is going to be all forms of Jihad all over the world because there is a sacred element , there is an element erm of er which is the presence of a foreign non-Muslim force in the Holy Land ; this is a very explosive element . |
| 10 | Suddenly , as we were about fifty yards from that lovely smell of coffee , there was an almighty roar as the barn blew up , scattering burning straw and all kinds of debris all over the farm area . |
| 11 | Some firms of English solicitors have branch offices in the major centres of commerce all over the world , to advise local clients on English law . |
| 12 | Dee makes plenty of long journeys to clubs all over the country usually in a hired Ford Fiesta , as he does n't own a car . |
| 13 | There were many representatives from churches all over our diocese who went to lobby their MPs . |
| 14 | Another notable promotion , to the trade this time , involved Picador 's sending pairs of pink knickers to booksellers all over the country — mostly men — to promote Tama Janowitz' new novel , The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group . |
| 15 | The trouble was that the land belonged to a family who lived in London and owned parcels of land all over the country and had so far resisted all attempts to relinquish this innocuous piece of British soil . |
| 16 | Due to the obsession of most comparative sociologists with problems of measurement , all sight of a global system was lost in the mists of dubious generalization about a host of discrete variables from societies all over the world . |
| 17 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 18 | And , after some 40 exhibitions in cities all over the world , she can boast that every one of her 1,000 well-loved paintings has been sold , apart from a few she has deliberately reserved for herself . |
| 19 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 20 | Lyddy put the final touches to her hair and slipped two ropes of pearls carefully over the finished edifice . |
| 21 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |