Example sentences of "over a [adj] area [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of these operate ‘ bussing routes ’ so that the expatriate families do not necessarily need to live close to the school itself but may choose to live along the school bus route , over a wider area of the capital . |
| 2 | Senior managers are required to coordinate the work of subordinates by having authority over a wider area of work , right up to the chief executive and board of directors . |
| 3 | The MDC was initially given control over a limited area of 865 acres of derelict and fragmented dockland which was geographically isolated from the rest of the city with little indigenous population or economic activity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 6 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 7 | Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe . |
| 8 | Their secret lies in their enormously elongated toes , which spread their weight over a wide area of lily leaf . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mrs Swindles said the development would be seen over a wide area of Co Antrim , Newtownabbey , Belfast and Co Down . |
| 12 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 13 | An accident in France would no have to be as serious as Chernobyl to imperil life and health over a wide area in France and its heavily populated neighbours . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Where damage has been done , particularly in gouging out a shopfront and leaving fine brick or stone upper storeys suspended over a vast area of plate glass , it may be worth seeking reinstatement . |
| 16 | All this has , of course , been made possible both by technological revolutions in transport and communication and by the lengthy period of free movements of the factors of production over a vast area of the globe which has developed since the second world war . |
| 17 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 18 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 19 | The population is spread over a large area of agricultural land . |
| 20 | He was able to extend his sphere of influence over a large area of south-eastern Britain . |
| 21 | As long as an overwhelming military presence existed , a measure of peace — peace with resentment , but peace just the same — was maintained over a large area of Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 22 | With frequencies less than one kHz apart both are rendered unusable over a large area by light aircraft with the aforementioned ADF equipment . |
| 23 | If we 're measuring the m membrane current , which here I 've called a macroscopic current because we 're we 're integrating over a whole area of membrane , this , with respect with any given channel will comprise can be expressed in terms of the number of channels which are present , the probability that each one of those channels is open , the open state probability , and in terms of the unitary current of each channel , that is the single channel current . |
| 24 | Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish . |
| 25 | A significant motivating factor for managers is the right to exercise discretion — ie. to have authority — over a particular area of work . |
| 26 | A public inquiry into enforcement action by Stockton Borough Council against L and LW Casey and Company over a rundown area of Stockton has been cancelled because one of those involved is seriously ill . |
| 27 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |