Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 2 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 3 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 4 | None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area . |
| 5 | It was the custom of such military monastic orders to establish ‘ Preceptories ’ in ‘ … desert and uncultivated places , to introduce inhabitants or to civilise those scattered over a wilderness ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We have a number of small part-time one-person branches scattered over a wide rural area — the furthest one is 40 miles distant from headquarters . |
| 7 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It will have to serve more people scattered over a larger area . |
| 16 | A number of village health workers ( VHWs ) link villages scattered over a 30 mile radius to the health centre . |
| 17 | Bohor reedbuck abounded on these uplands , generally in groups of four to seven ; once I saw as many as eighty scattered over a hillside . |
| 18 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 19 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 21 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 22 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 23 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 24 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 25 | At Congleton the canal is carried over a road at the south-east side of the town by a cast-iron aqueduct , built around 1835 , on curving masonry abutments . |
| 26 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |
| 27 | Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period . |
| 28 | Travel agents and tour operators often make back to back reservations which means that certain accommodation is booked over a period of time and as one group of guests depart another group takes their place . |
| 29 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 30 | The outer layer of the skin ( epidermis ) is made up of cells which are shed over a cycle of 28 days . |