Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 9 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 10 | A number of village health workers ( VHWs ) link villages scattered over a 30 mile radius to the health centre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It will have to serve more people scattered over a larger area . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For a start , it allows spreading to be carried over a longer period during the winter months ( Table 1 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Their combined list size was 250739 and from this population a total of 897 attacks was reported over a three month period . |
| 21 | Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 23 | He opened up a correspondence with the more pliable officers among Dara 's army and with promises of rewards secretly won over a sizeable proportion of his opponent 's force . |
| 24 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 25 | They are well equipped — all resourcing being channelled to that age group rather than being dispersed over a wider age group . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | These results introduce an immunologically-important , putative LCR which can be used to target genes to cells of the B cell lineage , as well as to other class II MHC expressing cells , and highlight the importance of chromatin structure analysis as a means to locate DNA regions of regulatory interest which are dispersed over a large distance . |
| 30 | The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel . |