Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Windows were shattered over a wide area and a number of persons had to be treated for injuries from flying glass and shock .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The temple can only be approached over a narrow drawbridge of truesteel .
20 Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period .
21 This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it .
22 I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar .
23 St. Trillo — On the foreshore at Rhos-on-Sea stands a tiny chapel , built over a holy well .
24 The main hall of the palace is built over a large undercroft and has twin naves with columns supporting a timber roof .
25 It is currently estimated that , for every £100 million invested in trunk road improvements , about 100 road deaths and 4,500 casualties are saved over a 30-year period .
26 We shall remove tax distortions , require in-house services to be clearly costed and accounted for , and ensure that one-off costs are appraised over a realistic period .
27 Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down .
28 Any spreadsheet should be able to calculate the present value of payments made over a fixed term .
29 By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs .
30 It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf .
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