Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun] all [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've got a ring of anti-aircraft guns all round them . |
| 2 | His other interest , ethnographical collections , grew through his support of Czech travellers all over the world . |
| 3 | I also kept in touch with the Navy by accepting , every October , invitations from a variety of naval establishments all over the country to propose the toast of the Immortal Memory of Lord Nelson at their Trafalgar Night dinners . |
| 4 | Bring back the express so , it does n't sort of highlight it , because they do n't have tiers of borrowed storage all over the place . |
| 5 | This is because the UK would have to contribute £39 000 a year to a fund to help protect natural and cultural sites of international importance all over the world . |
| 6 | When the shift of emphasis from moral to liturgical kingship came , it must be seen in the changing political context of ninth- and tenth-century Europe , and the emergence of new dynasties all over the once-unified empire of Charlemagne ; one of their principal qualifications to rule was their capacity to defeat external enemies . |
| 7 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 8 | Apply a bead of non-setting mastic all around the base of rebates on the timber subframe , and across the front sill platform |
| 9 | It 's positioned under the usual plates , ( with flat plate uppermost ) and the outflow from the tank hits the rotating bar , sending a spray of oxygenated water all over the media . |
| 10 | Guests came and went , totally unaware of the intricate weaving of human relationships all around them . |
| 11 | That is just 50 of the 100 questions put to members of aquatic societies all around the country over the last year . |
| 12 | I 'm not sure about that but I am sure that the relative strength of a South African side is the subject of heated debate all over the rugby world and , depending on who you speak to , the ‘ Boks are either the true World Champions or a collection of dinosaurs , hopelessly out of touch with the modern game and in for a rude awakening . |
| 13 | There was a glorious sunset rush of pure-blooded warmth all over her back and right down to her fingertips . |
| 14 | His death was supposed to have been messy , and there was a lot of realistic blood all over his costume . |
| 15 | Perhaps , but at the same time the means to cope with market movements have developed enormously , bettering the lot of corporate treasurers all around the world . |
| 16 | Dr P was asked what effect the growth of English literature all over the world , and the advent of modern literary criticism , had had on English teaching in universities : |
| 17 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 18 | The walls covered with pictures , others on tables , and portfolios of different sizes all round the room , they must have been full shows . |
| 19 | His target was ‘ the spate of mean building all over the country that is shrivelling up the Old England — mean and perky little houses that surely none but mean and perky little souls should inhabit with satisfaction ’ ( p. 15 ) . |
| 20 | Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them . |
| 21 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 22 | well he likes marshal art do n't he ? we wo n't tell daddy that you knocked a full on the table of black currant all over the carpet will we ? |