Example sentences of "[vb pp] over a wide [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 3 | Dampers are carefully designed so that this linear relationship is preserved over a wide range of speed difference . |
| 4 | It is found over a wide range of species , from butterflies and wasps to sea snakes and skunks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For instance , a great deal of development has occurred within enterprise zones , and the Urban programme has presided over a wide range of projects . |
| 8 | They were spread over a wide expanse of riverbank , back at the twisting curling Shannon river once more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The observation of a progression enables the vibrational potential function to be specified over a wide range of the quantum number ν . |
| 12 | In the theory which accompanied this series it was shown that the function of regulated systems was to convert a ‘ rough ’ d.c. input voltage into a stable d.c. output voltage which would be maintained over a wide range of load current requirements as well as input voltage variations . |
| 13 | This rate is maintained over a wide range of aortic pressures by means of afferent and efferent arteriolar autoregulatory mechanisms , such as angiotensin II , renal prostaglandins , contractile myoepithelium , and the glomerular mesangium . |
| 14 | The worst day for bomb scares was the Wednesday before Christmas , when many hours of trading were lost over a wide area of the centre of town . |