Example sentences of "[being] spread [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 2 | The first is that being spread over a period of time which began before the Armada , included the civil war and Commonwealth , and finished only after the accession of William of Orange , they are an unrivalled source of information on the changing status of many local families . |
| 3 | By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun . |
| 4 | A blend of grass seed , fertiliser and cellulose glue , it was being spread over the paths as a last ditch attempt to save an area the size of four football pitches from irreversible soil erosion caused by the 250,000 walkers who tramp around the area every year . |
| 5 | Apocryphal tales gallop across the country with lightning speed , and there is rarely a moment when some bizarre story is not being spread in the interests of gossip and exaggeration . |
| 6 | We have farms with dioxin-contaminated milk which must be transferred to the west midlands , where it is not being destroyed at the proper temperature , so dioxin is being spread in the west midlands . |
| 7 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |
| 8 | Pointers will enable a file to be held in a single location rather than separate copies being spread around the system . |
| 9 | Er we do have interviews with the number of members who had exited the compound indicating that there was er inf er erm m petroleum type products that were being spread around the compound . |
| 10 | The concert party provisions prevent important Rules of the Code ( particularly Rules 5 , 6 , 9 and 11 ) being circumvented by dealings in shares being spread amongst a number of parties acting together . |