Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over a wide [noun sg] " 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 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The observation of a progression enables the vibrational potential function to be specified over a wide range of the quantum number ν . |
| 7 | In hand knitting these braids are developed and can be worked over a wide number of stitches , sometimes forming basket weave patterns , but on a chunky machine there is a risk of forcing the needles . |
| 8 | In the theory which accompanied this series it was shown that the function of regulated systems was to convert a ‘ rough ’ d.c. input voltage into a stable d.c. output voltage which would be maintained over a wide range of load current requirements as well as input voltage variations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The speeds of molecules in a gas are spread over a wide range . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ireland , again unlike Holland , is a relatively big country and the players are spread over a wide area . |
| 13 | Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front . |
| 14 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 15 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 16 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 17 | They are well equipped — all resourcing being channelled to that age group rather than being dispersed over a wider age group . |
| 18 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 19 | They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank , back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Dampers are carefully designed so that this linear relationship is preserved over a wide range of speed difference . |
| 24 | It is found over a wide range of species , from butterflies and wasps to sea snakes and skunks . |
| 25 | This rate is maintained over a wide range of aortic pressures by means of afferent and efferent arteriolar autoregulatory mechanisms , such as angiotensin II , renal prostaglandins , contractile myoepithelium , and the glomerular mesangium . |
| 26 | 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 . |