Example sentences of "be [vb pp] all over [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dashing new treatments of the Savoy operas have been cheered all over Britain , and the company 's current tour has seen an even greater departure from tradition . |
| 2 | It 's high quality stuff and his salami and his wild boar sausages are known all over Tuscany . |
| 3 | A sigh of relief could be heard all over Scotland . |
| 4 | ‘ We can be heard all over Donegal and Northern Ireland , and now we 're getting fan letters from the west coast of Scotland . |
| 5 | Tower mills can be seen all over Britain , but south-east England houses more wooden smock mills . |
| 6 | A lovely villa , set in beautiful gardens amidst vineyards it was once the home of the della Robbias , the family of renaissance artists , famous for their glazed ‘ terracotta ’ work , and whose masterpieces are to be admired all over Florence 's churches and galleries — most notably the lovely cherubs which grace the foundling hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata . |
| 7 | Gudok pointed out that such an exploit could not be repeated all over Russia , so staff on individual railway lines would have to keep their eyes skinned for military or criminal activity . |
| 8 | 200 walks organised by The Ramblers ' Association to be held all over England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 9 | Almost concurrently , a report came from Bombay that the Odonata had been observed all over India , feeding on the corpses of Parsis . |
| 10 | Vaulting was being developed all over Europe by the later eleventh century , but in Italy the wooden roof and/or the domical covering were the usual method . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
| 13 | By the middle of the century chamber cantatas were being written all over Italy ; the composers were as numerous as the madrigalists of the previous century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Arrests were made all over London . |
| 16 | They were made all over Europe and yielded the papacy an annual payment ( often of an ounce of gold ) from each house . |
| 17 | The effects of the Chernobyl radiation leak were measured all over Europe , 32 people died as a result of fighting the fire that occurred , and thousands more are expected to develop cancers as a result of radioactive contamination . |
| 18 | Die Entführung was being performed all over Austria and Germany , and , according to Leopold , the Berlin papers were advertising the new quartets , saying that Mozart 's name alone was sufficient to recommend them to the public : no other guarantee of quality was needed . |
| 19 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 20 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 21 | ‘ They will know the game is being televised all over Europe and they will give everything because of that . |
| 22 | This was naturally continued and copies were distributed all over India , sent to all publicity agencies and taken into Burma . |
| 23 | There are battles being fought all over Ireland about pollution incidents and industrial hazards . |
| 24 | From the 500 women who were questioned all over England and Scotland the following facts emerged : |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | And in the surrounding marshy countryside , farmers raise fighting water-buffalo that are sent all over Spain for their date with destiny at the hands of the matadors . |
| 27 | Bourbon is made all over Kentucky , although there are no distilleries in Bourbon County itself . |
| 28 | Small wonder that the presence of Guinness is felt all over Ireland ; for Guinness is fully interwoven in the fabric of Irish life , from the farmers who grow the barley to the many artists , musicians and sports people who enjoy the benefits of Guinness 's involvement in over 100 festivals and cultural events around Ireland each year . |
| 29 | Republic Day in January is celebrated all over India and in the grandest style ! |
| 30 | RED ink is splattered all over Britain 's companies . |