Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] over the [noun] " 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 Such things are happening all over the country .
4 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 .
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 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 .
7 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
8 And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea .
9 One ca n't actually separate them , although you will try to , from all the other rules and regulations we are passing all over the place .
10 ‘ They are used all over the school . ’
11 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 .
12 Based on original sheep shears , 82 different models are exported all over the world .
13 At the same time I think some people are going well over the top in slagging off Wilko .
14 ‘ And we are going all over the place .
15 At midnight the church bells are sounded all over the city and the sky is full of all varieties of fireworks .
16 Low granules are found sporadically over the disk , slightly larger ones in the vicinity of the radial shields .
17 Here the usual export formalities occur before the guitars are shipped all over the world .
18 Anyway , pretty soon half the law in town are crawling all over the street .
19 He is one of the less famous victims among the tens of thousands of small businessmen who are suffering all over the land as a Tory dream turns into a nightmare .
20 It proves that winds are distributed all over the globe , and that the whole planet enjoys a circulatory system like — ’
21 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 .
22 Selling and Distribution expenses are estimated to be £50,400 a year and are incurred evenly over the year .
23 We 've got 37,000 members who are spread all over the country .
24 But , but , genes themselves are spread all over the perimeter , so you might well find that er genes there 's more of them
25 This concept of individual timetables enables us to get away from the focus on the family or household as an undifferentiated unit , and to understand something of the complex patterns which evolve when individuals ' lives are woven together over the period of their lifetimes .
26 Introducing the perspective of time also requires us to consider an individual 's ‘ lifetime ’ , and how the lives of specific individuals are woven together over the lifespan of each .
27 Negotiations over the art export arrangement within an integrated market have reached a crucial phase and national delegations are negotiating toughly over the Commission 's proposals .
28 ‘ At a lower level , players are tackled all over the field .
29 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 ? ’
30 Nemba events are staged all over the North of England with the final held at Eston , Middlesbrough .
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