Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over [art] [adj] area " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ireland , again unlike Holland , is a relatively big country and the players are spread over a wide area . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 12 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 13 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 14 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The worst day for bomb scares was the Wednesday before Christmas , when many hours of trading were lost over a wide area of the centre of town . |
| 18 | As well as these precepting bodies there are numerous joint committees for other services where co-operation is needed over a wider area than the individual district . |
| 19 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 20 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 21 | The lithosphere possesses a certain degree of rigidity so that the mass of any load ( such as an ice sheet ) placed on it is supported over a greater area than that covered by the load itself . |
| 22 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A minimum of 7 mm lead shielding was used over the central area and over the body of each animal . |
| 25 | At relaparotomy a large bile duct defect was seen , located 1.5 cm proximal to the cystic duct and a Roux-en-Y loop was anastomosed over the perforated area . |
| 26 | 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 . |