Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [verb] all over " in BNC.

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1 At midnight the church bells are sounded all over the city and the sky is full of all varieties of fireworks .
2 In eastern Germany itself , subscribers are being linked via cellular or microwave radio to newly-installed digital networks , and similar patterns are emerging all over Eastern Europe .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins .
5 Your eyes were darting all over me , you could barely speak , your face was burning up with heat … ’
6 Memorial rallies were held all over Hungary on Oct. 23 to commemorate the 1956 revolution and the proclamation of the Hungarian Republic in 1989 [ see pp. 36961 ; 37739 ] .
7 Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room .
8 Based on original sheep shears , 82 different models are exported all over the world .
9 It proves that winds are distributed all over the globe , and that the whole planet enjoys a circulatory system like — ’
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Patriots were running all over the place , periwigs ablaze , screaming for help , burrowing into the sand and rolling .
13 Here the usual export formalities occur before the guitars are shipped all over the world .
14 Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs .
15 Not , well this one specifically this but er I mean there 's tapes being taken all over the place .
16 Such things are happening all over the country .
17 Things were moving all over her .
18 Then an attempt was made to get rid of it at 800 deg C in the west midlands but the incinerator needed to be at 1,200 deg C. The result was that the dioxins from Bolsover in the east midlands were transmitted all over the west midlands .
19 The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place .
20 By lunchtime , loose guns were rumbling all over the Tory deck .
21 We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 ‘ At a lower level , players are tackled all over the field .
25 Reporters and photographers were swarming all over the sanatorium that day .
26 Tears were running all over her face .
27 Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows .
28 On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central .
29 Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ?
30 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
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