Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] wide " in BNC.
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| 1 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 8 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 9 | Driving over the wide crossroads , for the second time , without another car to be seen , she had a vision of herself driving around all night . |
| 10 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 11 | Greek artists of this period were highly mobile , and this is reflected in the development of a well-defined style dispersed over a wide geographical area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 15 | Dampers are carefully designed so that this linear relationship is preserved over a wide range of speed difference . |
| 16 | The heavy panels gave way at last beneath her fingers and she lurched out on to the terrace , crossed it , then raced over the wide sweep of lawn . |
| 17 | They left Riverboat Island a few minutes later , walked over the wide bridge in silence . |
| 18 | Occasionally , one would flick snow at the other — although by now the snow was well trampled over a wide area . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is found over a wide range of species , from butterflies and wasps to sea snakes and skunks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For instance , a great deal of development has occurred within enterprise zones , and the Urban programme has presided over a wide range of projects . |
| 23 | Throughout the remainder of the 1650s , successive governments presided over a wide diversity of religious practice ; large numbers of English men and women continued to frequent only their parish churches , many worshipped solely in gathered congregations of Independents , Baptists , and Quakers , and many more regularly attended both sectarian and parish worship . |
| 24 | They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank , back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more . |
| 25 | an organisation which is spread over a wide geographical area is likely to decentralise authority on a regional basis , so that different cultures might predominate in different regions ; and |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The speeds of molecules in a gas are spread over a wide range . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Ireland , again unlike Holland , is a relatively big country and the players are spread over a wide area . |
| 30 | 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 . |