Example sentences of "[verb] over a large [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many teachers mentioned the difficulties of doing practical work in classrooms without storage space , in rooms scattered over a large campus , in departments without money to buy equipment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These results introduce an immunologically-important , putative LCR which can be used to target genes to cells of the B cell lineage , as well as to other class II MHC expressing cells , and highlight the importance of chromatin structure analysis as a means to locate DNA regions of regulatory interest which are dispersed over a large distance . |
| 4 | The main hall of the palace is built over a large undercroft and has twin naves with columns supporting a timber roof . |
| 5 | The performance of the simple low-pass C-R filter is best displayed over a large range of frequency in a plot of versus . |
| 6 | He could see Big Tom Fish hunched over a large plate of food , and he recalled afresh , in agonizing detail , the broad naked back and the strong buttocks working between his mother 's legs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anker Simmons , the Mayor of Henley and a member of the Bolney Syndicate , presided over a large gathering of men interested in the formation of a golf club . |
| 10 | Because family credit and housing benefit are withdrawn over a large band of income , and because low-income families begin to pay tax at a low threshold , there are now whole bands of income over which it is difficult for low-income families to improve their net income . |
| 11 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is probable that the species commonly called summer or spring wheat will continue to be the favourite sort of this grain ; and although the cultivation of it may not perhaps be advisable in general over the Hebrides , yet , in consequence of various circumstances favourable to it in Islay , and especially the building of a flour mill by the enlightened and patriotic proprietor , ( which cost him £1200 ) , this valuable crop may be extended over a large portion of the best farms in the island . |