Example sentences of "are [vb pp] all over " in BNC.

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1 Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it .
2 Counties are designated all over the south .
3 Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart .
4 The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House .
5 The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country .
6 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
7 Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it .
8 ‘ They are used all over the school . ’
9 These circumstances are mirrored all over the country and are linked with the lack of a firm policy framework at school , local authority and national level .
10 Based on original sheep shears , 82 different models are exported all over the world .
11 At midnight the church bells are sounded all over the city and the sky is full of all varieties of fireworks .
12 Here the usual export formalities occur before the guitars are shipped all over the world .
13 It 's high quality stuff and his salami and his wild boar sausages are known all over Tuscany .
14 It proves that winds are distributed all over the globe , and that the whole planet enjoys a circulatory system like — ’
15 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 .
16 There are six , two in one department and four in another , I believe it is. erm if you look at erm the way our departments are dotted all over the City , on expensive leases in fact , we 've taken property after property to accommodate our staff and they all need cleaners , so on and so forth .
17 But , but , genes themselves are spread all over the perimeter , so you might well find that er genes there 's more of them
18 We 've got 37,000 members who are spread all over the country .
19 And in the surrounding marshy countryside , farmers raise fighting water-buffalo that are sent all over Spain for their date with destiny at the hands of the matadors .
20 ‘ At a lower level , players are tackled all over the field .
21 But you are proposing to use pictures of naked women , or one naked woman — like the pin-ups that are plastered all over the factory ? ’
22 Nemba events are staged all over the North of England with the final held at Eston , Middlesbrough .
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