Example sentences of "be [vb pp] all around " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a well known fact that aircraft are sold all around the world , this can have a bearing on the capability and also a bearing on their cost and therefore saleability . |
| 2 | As it grows dark , fires are lit all around the stockade . |
| 3 | Sea fish would be caught all around the coast and estuaries , perhaps for most of the year , and traded some distance inland . |
| 4 | of the twentieth century cultural decay and psychological degradation are to be seen all around us . |
| 5 | She will be shown all around the hospice and meet patients and staff , ’ said Lady Miriam . |
| 6 | Hence multiple copies of a given fragment of text can be found all around the surface of the disc , the more so if the disc is old and much used . |
| 7 | This needs to be glued all around the edge of the plate to form a tight seal so that gravel does not get under the plate . |
| 8 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 9 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 10 | It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd . |
| 11 | High above them , the base of the Bridge passed through a cone of semi-transparent cables , which were anchored all around the edge of the depression , before continuing downwards to merge smoothly with the bubble itself . |
| 12 | Both had their moments and , for the first time , both were shown all around the world on television . |
| 13 | In Castries they strolled through the busy streets , bought bread , cheese and fruit for a picnic , and drank iced rum under the shade of a café umbrella , where they amicably discussed St Lucia 's long tug-of-war between French and English , and tried to decipher the local French patois being spoken all around them . |
| 14 | WITH the release of his most commercial film , a remake of the 1960s thriller ‘ Cape Fear ’ , Martin Scorsese 's is a name that is being buzzed all around the media . |
| 15 | Half a million application forms have been printed and are being sent all around the country , via over 1,000 blubs , nearly 3,000 schools and through the RFU youth development officers . |
| 16 | Now I knew the king was in residence because his gold and leopard standards had been planted all around the entrance . |