Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] all over " in BNC.
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1 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But enough family likeness remains to make the chimpanzees ' tea-time a most popular attraction in zoos all over the world . |
4 | One only has to look at the diminishing casts in productions all over the country . |
5 | We assist in the movement of products and raw materials between nations all over the world . |
6 | He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it , nothing else . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | The Pope 's 450-page draft text has been drawn up with the help of 24,000 suggestions from bishops all over the world . |
9 | The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country . |
10 | So , there are these sort of centres all over the country , er but this is the first time that there has been one that has arts and science under the same room . |
11 | The significance of the birth of Christ is not the sudden appearance of angels all over the place , but the fact that such an important person was born in the most humble surroundings — in a poor and lowly stable . |
12 | Most of all , he was a campaigner for human rights for writers all over the world . |
13 | They often find it easier to deal with an agency rather than directly with someone , ’ said a spokesman for Poppies , the Darlington-based company with franchises all over the country ( –444 ) . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | There were many representatives from churches all over our diocese who went to lobby their MPs . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | No one can deny that millions are made to suffer and die each year in laboratories all over the world . |
22 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
23 | It gives access to all sorts of information , whether locally provided , or by remote access to systems all over the world . |
24 | This from one who has majored in sneaking out of bad acting in theatres all over the world . |
25 | The project is already fully booked for the next year for children all over the county studying the Victorian era as part of the national curriculum . |