Example sentences of "over a [adj] area [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior managers are required to coordinate the work of subordinates by having authority over a wider area of work , right up to the chief executive and board of directors . |
| 2 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 3 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 4 | Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes , which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf . |
| 5 | Where damage has been done , particularly in gouging out a shopfront and leaving fine brick or stone upper storeys suspended over a vast area of plate glass , it may be worth seeking reinstatement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A significant motivating factor for managers is the right to exercise discretion — ie. to have authority — over a particular area of work . |