Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [art] wide [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 2 | It aims to promote econometric research over a wide area and its meetings are supported by researchers in Universities , Polytechnics , Government , Commerce and Industry . |
| 3 | Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes , which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf . |
| 4 | In many applications the motor must be able to produce a large Pull-out torque over a wide range of stepping rates , so the time taken to position a load is minimised . |
| 5 | It addresses issues and topics within the fields of comparative government and international relations , and provides scope for essay and dissertation work over a wide range of subjects and disciplines . |
| 6 | His main contribution to the understanding of ancient geography lay in his personal knowledge of the relevant topography over a wide area , combined with a natural appreciation of the writings of the geographers themselves , especially Strabo . |
| 7 | ‘ All metals expand when heated ’ will only be a legitimate generalization if the observations of expansion on which it is based range over a wide variety of conditions . |
| 8 | The trees shook , even the ground beneath me shook , as I suddenly realised that a salvo of heavy shells was passing over at tree height , and everyone — including the prisoners — scattered in the direction of the dug-outs ; the salvo hit the ground a short distance away with an almighty roar , the explosions throwing debris over a wide area . |
| 9 | A tangle of twisted metal is all that remains of the giant oil tank that fuelled the power station at the edge of the Bulmers factory site.It 's believed the man who died was welding a measuring gauge on top of the tank when it exploded , scattering debris over a wide area.The man died before he reached hospital.After the first explosion , there were further blasts creating a pall of smoke over Hereford.Bulmers Director Terry Watts was in an office nearby : |
| 10 | Between 1963 and 1965 the volcano Irazu in Costa Rica was more or less continuously active , with frequent explosions raining ash over a wide area and ruining the all-important coffee crop , but throughout this time no lavas were erupted and there was no significant change in the pattern of the eruption . |
| 11 | It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area . |
| 12 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 13 | The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine provides a dramatic example of the transboundary impact of pollution , seriously affecting human and animal population over a wide area . |
| 14 | This has some advantages , as the rotational envelope results in a spreading of the intensity of a band over a wide range , and may lead to overlapping of bands due to different vibrations . |
| 15 | In fact , Savage ( 1978 ) in reviewing econometric evidence over a wide range of studies , concludes that the interest rate has been found to have little significance in influencing UK fixed investment . |
| 16 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 17 | Throughout the public sector individuals exercise discretion over a wide range of issues . |
| 18 | He compared it with the scheme 30 years ago when Britain built tall chimneys to disperse pollution over a wide area . |
| 19 | Compressors in heat pumps need to give high efficiency over a wide range of operating temperatures , but those developed for refrigeration tend to be designed for a comparatively narrow range . |
| 20 | After Alexander the Great 's victories in the near East towards the end of the fourth century B.C. , Greek became a common tongue over a wide area . |
| 21 | Intrusion would be a more general lessening of landscape quality over a wide area . |
| 22 | In the larger craters there will be some upward movement of the crater floor towards isostatic equilibrium , material having been removed by the impact over a wide region . |
| 23 | There were ancient papal letters too , preserved by Bede , which granted the archbishop ( in language less clear than later ages thought desirable , but still in words sufficient for men of good will ) an ecclesiastical authority over the wide territories of the British Isles . |
| 24 | Hence planning was not a uniquely left- or right-wing cause between the wars , it was a response from progressive capitalists , professional people , academics , centrist politicians and socialists who found in it a means of advance over a wide range of social and economic problems . |
| 25 | Hickson is large enough to provide excellent support in terms of safety systems , effluent treatment , safety testing ( all aspects ) , corrosion testing , engineering expertise and in depth experience over a wide range of equipment and chemistry . |
| 26 | Salt handed her a cloth from the rail over the wide kitchen fireplace . |
| 27 | On leaving Croydon , the road pursued a straight course over the wide expanse of open scrubland known as Mitcham Common . |
| 28 | By spreading the impactor 's mass over a wide area , fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and aerobraking ; hence a fragmenting object stops more abruptly , surrendering its kinetic energy more explosively , than does a non-fragmenting object . |
| 29 | While a cannon ball may plough through a line of troops and kill two or three victims , a mortar shell explodes with a tremendous bang , scattering mud , dirt , and bits of shell over a wide area . |
| 30 | It is now possible for mature students to study to general degree level over a wide range of subjects entirely in the part-time evening mode . |