Example sentences of "spread over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Possibly this is a more extensive version of the system applicable to the Sancton-Baston pottery , reflecting branches of a much larger family or clan , spread over eastern England .
2 Key to the architecture is an ICL-designed high-speed interconnect link for the processors , which will allow database queries to be spread over multiple CPUs and data to cover multiple file systems .
3 After the publication of the Nouvelle Heloise and Emile ( 1762 ) the cult of romantic landscape spread over Western Europe .
4 The cost to consumers should more appropriately be spread over future generations by borrowing , ’ commented the ET .
5 Of course the component notes could be spread over various registers in many ways , giving wide possibilities . ) :
6 It has its own special atmosphere , and , moreover , it is not easily spread over large areas without stagnation .
7 Conservation areas can be spread over large chunks of historic towns or just one street .
8 Bishop Farquhar accused Mr Edwards ' killers of hiding ‘ in the exchanges of bitterness and hostility spread over previous generations ’ .
9 In other words the tax is not spread over previous transactions , but is charged on the full amount of the sale .
10 In an electronic database , information appears to be a single document , form or table , when in fact it may be spread over different files , databases or in a truly distributed application , over several organisations and dispersed locations …
11 The long domed nose contains a smell-receptive membrane spread over rolled-up scrolls of bone .
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