Example sentences of "[vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 31 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 32 | Even if it had , the selfhood would be in the replicas of the gene scattered over different bodies ; that the gene , analogous though it is to species rather than to individual , has to be taken as the unit , is precisely because it is more useful for explanation to speak of the selfish gene than of the altruistic replica . |
| 33 | As the dawn slowly broke and the cocks began to crow in unison outside the cottages scattered over the heath , a sensation of rapt stillness cast its spell on him . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | I do n't know whether this is optional … is ‘ being severed in two , bowels turned to ashes and these ashes scattered over the face of the earth . ’ |
| 36 | Again for sweaters , little crescent moons and stars scattered over the fabric makes a very pretty design , as does one big intarsia crescent moon which again can be classically simple or fun with a face on it . |
| 37 | Ancient castles , burial chambers , ruins and churches are scattered over the area , highlighting the rich cultural heritage and providing a contrast to the golden sands , estuaries and wooded valleys . |
| 38 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 39 | A simple matt black sweater , with just a few tiny red glass beads or minute sequins scattered over it , would look lovely in movement and gorgeous to wear on Christmas Day . |
| 40 | Other pieces , scattered over Israel in various universities and research institutes , date from 1300 BC to the eighteenth century , shedding light on Egyptian , Roman and early Christian history . |
| 41 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 42 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 43 | Scattered over the moorland to the left are the remains of hut circles . |
| 44 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 45 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 46 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
| 47 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 48 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 49 | A couple of handfuls scattered over the area surrounding the sett , an hour or two before dusk , will often convince the resident brocks that it 's worth staying a while longer before going off to forage . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 52 | There they witnessed the blood of sacrifices , human as well as animal , being scattered over ornaments including a ceremonial collar of fifteen to twenty coral necklaces . |
| 53 | It will have to serve more people scattered over a larger area . |
| 54 | A number of village health workers ( VHWs ) link villages scattered over a 30 mile radius to the health centre . |
| 55 | ‘ Then she flew high over the site of Callanish above the men and the fallen bodies of her kind which were scattered over the site . |
| 56 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 57 | Although at some times of the year , individuals within the dogwhelk enclave may be scattered over the shore , at others they aggregate in large clusters . |
| 58 | His ashes were scattered over Eton playing-fields from his own plane . |
| 59 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 60 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |