Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Their pictures were spread all over the news bulletins . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 6 | Based on original sheep shears , 82 different models are exported all over the world . |
| 7 | It proves that winds are distributed all over the globe , and that the whole planet enjoys a circulatory system like — ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here the usual export formalities occur before the guitars are shipped all over the world . |
| 11 | Not , well this one specifically this but er I mean there 's tapes being taken all over the place . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The place was deserted , there was no sign of the family , smashed furniture and household goods were strewn all over the place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ At a lower level , players are tackled all over the field . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After 1313 all works produced by Parisian goldsmiths and enamellers bore a hallmark depicting a fleur-de-lis within a lozenge and these objects were disseminated all over Europe , not least to England . |
| 23 | This was naturally continued and copies were distributed all over India , sent to all publicity agencies and taken into Burma . |
| 24 | By the 1900s , British Arts and Crafts houses were admired all over the world . |
| 25 | Savings groups were formed all over the country and children ran their own campaigns in schools . |
| 26 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 27 | It 's high quality stuff and his salami and his wild boar sausages are known all over Tuscany . |
| 28 | As a result the British Zeta results were splashed all over the world 's newspapers ( New Scientist , 20 January , p 166 ) . |
| 29 | Arrests were made all over London . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in the late 1960s , mini-skirts were distributed all over the world and could be ( if preserved ) the index fossil for that epoch . |