Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] all over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years British papers have been widely used all over the world . |
| 2 | Apples are now grown all over the world from Himachal Pradesh in northern India to small luxury orchards throughout Africa . |
| 3 | These plastic cards are the most flexible way of shopping on credit and they are now used all over the world . |
| 4 | The recently launched G M B , T and G information pack on the acquired rights directive has been well received all over the country and a revised pack is available here at Congress today , giving negotiators and stewards the latest information and arguments to use to protect members ' jobs and conditions . |
| 5 | ‘ What sort of creature ? ’ asked Betty suspiciously , possibly thinking of those large mysterious cats which are regularly sighted all over the British Isles but never caught . |
| 6 | Moreover , the case studies reported , where MITI was highly influential , were not entirely typical : ‘ Some of the rapidly expanding ‘ new ’ industries , the products of which have been increasingly exported all over the world — such as motor cycles , bearings ( especially miniature bearings ) , transistor radios , TV sets , tape recorders , pianos and zippers — received relatively little government assistance even in their infancy periods . |
| 7 | Party night : This is an extremely happy night , hosted by the Mayrhofen Trio who are well known all over the world ; in fact , they represented Austria at the Olympic Games . |
| 8 | Thirteenth- and fourteenth-century German arms and armour , however , were extensively sold all over Europe . |
| 9 | Warning stations were then established all over the Ocean , and a big ‘ tsunami early warning system ’ was set up in Hawaii , an island chain through which all major long-haul waves , it is reckoned , were bound to pass . |
| 10 | This massive , muscular breed is now known all over the world and over the last quarter of a century it has seen herdbooks or breed societies established in 24 countries in addition to France ( Argentina , Australia , Belgium , Brazil , Canada , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Hungary , Ireland , Japan , Mexico , the Netherlands , Norway , Paraguay , Portugal , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , the UK , the USSR , the USA , Uruguay and Zimbabwe ) . |
| 11 | She was practically draped all over him . |
| 12 | Old Mother Jacobsen — as she was affectionately known all over the island — was in her late nineties , and she was blind . |
| 13 | It was not a strong gust , but it was fiercely hot , and he was severely burned all over his back and legs . |
| 14 | Again without a query , the news was triumphantly relayed all over the world , with the simultaneous announcement that the Kaiser had bestowed the Pour le Mérite upon Guretzky-Cornitz . |
| 15 | He kept her waiting , pushing her desire to the limits , enjoying the torment , the agony that was surely written all over her face . |
| 16 | ‘ From the moment I walked into OBEX it was plainly written all over your face . |
| 17 | But the man whose name was on the cheque was well known all over London for his kind and generous acts . |
| 18 | Their beer was well known all over Europe — Korma , Courmi , or Coirm it was called , depending on where you found it — from Czechoslovakia to the Skelligs . |