Example sentences of "[verb] over [adj] area " in BNC.
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| 1 | Natural resources were scattered over vast areas . |
| 2 | Government departments and multinational companies , for example , are dispersed over wide areas . |
| 3 | The going was often helped , considerably , by spongs , wooden walkways built over boggy areas by the Lappish people . |
| 4 | The pollution would have the most severe effect on Iraq and Iran , where agriculture was threatened over wide areas . |
| 5 | Very few people are known to have been killed directly by the explosions , great though they were , but no less than 36,000 died when the tsunamis ripped over low-lying areas all along the coasts , overwhelming towns and villages . |
| 6 | However , it is common for fewer than twelve notes to be used over specific areas , or for certain notes to be repeated or used more than others , as long as the general non-tonal effect is maintained . |
| 7 | It has been found that there is a definite sequence of vegetation changes in the Post-glacial period and that these changes can be recognised over wide areas . |
| 8 | The heathland birds have disappeared over large areas , and become rarer altogether . |
| 9 | It is the native accent of more than 203,000,000 people and is spoken over wide areas of the United States and in parts of Canada . |
| 10 | Dense summer acid hazes are now experienced over extensive areas of rural southern Britain , being closely related to the advection of polluted continental air masses ( Barnes and Lee , 1978 ; Lee , 1983a , 1983b , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Even more remarkable , however , is the fact that individual bands can be traced over vast areas . |
| 12 | This can be contrasted with the antiquity of rocks exposed over large areas of the continents which in some cases are more than 3000 Ma old . |
| 13 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
| 14 | Each LAN has to have its own licence and can not be bridged over wide area network connections . |
| 15 | Record low levels of ozone have been observed over large areas of the Northern hemisphere , according to the World Meteorological Organization . |
| 16 | Usually the physical data on soil loss has to be combined with a fairly detailed knowledge of land-use and its history , if the man-made contribution to erosion is to be reliably estimated over large areas ( outside carefully laid-out experimental plots in research stations ) . |
| 17 | It has its own special atmosphere , and , moreover , it is not easily spread over large areas without stagnation . |
| 18 | The ‘ acid rain ’ had passed over industrial areas of the UK , France or West Germany . |
| 19 | Control of a like kind is maintained over other areas such as education , housing , the police , the mentally disordered , and aspects of nationalised industry . |
| 20 | Fish and other organisms have been successively destroyed over large areas of the creek , and surviving fish have become chronically diseased . |
| 21 | Aerial ULV sprays will be most suitable when a pest has to be controlled over vast areas at the same time ; in the control of tsetse fly , for example , and in forests , to control pine beauty moth in Scotland . |