Example sentences of "[verb] over a [adj] area " in BNC.
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| 1 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 2 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 3 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 4 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 5 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 6 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 7 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 8 | For the city-centre church this will mean working with a map of the entire city , in recognition that the majority of their congregation will be scattered over a large area . |
| 9 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 10 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 11 | The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area . |
| 12 | When it erupted around 75 000 a BP an estimated 2000 km 3 of material was dispersed over a wide area of the East Indies . |
| 13 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 14 | Occasionally , one would flick snow at the other — although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area . |
| 15 | The remains of engine houses and mining shafts are found over a wide area in this region , as well as ‘ rakes ’ long fissures stretching for miles across the landscape , where miners extracted ore from narrow veins in the carboniferous limestone . |
| 16 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 17 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 18 | It would in some parts of the country be distributed over a wide area : the whole of East Anglia , for instance , with at present precisely 20 single-member constituencies , and in Scotland some considerably more extensive territories . |
| 19 | While searching for prey , many dolphin species move in tight schools distributed over a large area , using sound to stay in contact and communicate with each other over significant distances . |
| 20 | Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area . |
| 21 | Finally the nomadic Parthians were followed , two , centuries after Christ , by the Sassaniansm who Shahanshah , or King , still ruled over a vast area , including parts of what are now Georgia , Armenia , Afghanistan , Bahrain and Iraq . |
| 22 | The series is also spread over a broad area ( both instruments sharing the same serial form ) to cover the first twelve bars of the work . |
| 23 | Even within London the operations were spread over a wide area with , for example , designers at Greenford , south-east London , fittings in Battersea and pattern-cutting in Kilburn . |
| 24 | Consideration may need to be given to switching partners or departments to achieve this ; ( 3 ) inevitably , where the activities of a firm are spread over a wide area , problems arise in connection with the basic decision making processwhen , for example , partners ' meetings become more difficult to arrange . |
| 25 | Ireland , again unlike Holland , is a relatively big country and the players are spread over a wide area . |
| 26 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |
| 27 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 28 | The absence of a temple in the vicinity of the buildings need not negate this hypothesis , since on most sites of this nature the buildings are spread over a considerable area . |
| 29 | If we 're measuring the m membrane current , which here I 've called a macroscopic current because we 're we 're integrating over a whole area of membrane , this , with respect with any given channel will comprise can be expressed in terms of the number of channels which are present , the probability that each one of those channels is open , the open state probability , and in terms of the unitary current of each channel , that is the single channel current . |
| 30 | As long as an overwhelming military presence existed , a measure of peace — peace with resentment , but peace just the same — was maintained over a large area of Central and Eastern Europe . |