Example sentences of "[noun sg] scatter [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The Bradys do n't have that much money to scatter at the Royal Hotel . ’ |
2 | The beam of X-rays was of course scattered by the collision , but Compton discovered that the wavelengths of some of the scattered X-rays had increased — they had lost energy . |
3 | This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma . |
4 | The laser-Doppler anemometer measures velocity by measuring the Doppler shift of light scattered within the moving fluid . |
5 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
6 | The debris scattered to the ground . |
7 | Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan . |
8 | A population concentrated in cities was more accessible to the influence of new ideological trends than a population scattered through the countryside . |
9 | ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs . |
10 | If the maser radiation of the main features intersects dense , plasma-like , compact ionized regions , the stimulated Raman scattering in the plasma ( due to nonlinear interaction between the longitudinal and transverse waves ) is expected to produce additional waves with up- and down-shifted frequencies , which are separated by the plasma frequency from the original one . |
11 | ‘ We were just taking some reciprocal photos for my kid , ’ Florian explained insouciantly as he stood up , indicating the photos of Joni scattered over the glass-topped coffee-table . |
12 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
13 | Cropmarks and pottery scatters of the prehistoric and Romano-British settlements contemporary with these early land divisions have been located at several points within the later village complex at Wharram Percy : each appears to represent a farmstead site . |
14 | Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort . |
15 | It smashed , and machinery scattered over the ground . |
16 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
17 | Here she was , buck-naked , in her bathroom with an equally undressed man , with twenty thousand dollars ' worth of jewellery scattered on the floor between them . |
18 | She glanced over the assortment of floats and lead shot scattered on the ground beside him . |
19 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
20 | Another powerful smell , of decaying rubbish , came mainly from the ash-pits at the far end of the corridor , but also from a deposit scattered over the floor . |
21 | The Mambo who had sat beside Mait joined the priestesses in running for the cemetery gates , while the rest of the congregation scattered to the winds , fleeing the hail of bullets that crisscrossed the poteau mitan . |
22 | The photo-peak counts corresponding to the 808 keV photon energy of 5 8 Co and the 265 keV photon energy of 7 5 Se ( to correct for down scatter from the ihigher energy , 5 8 Co window into the lower energy 7 5 Se window ) were recorded from a whole body counter . |
23 | In this period , the recognition of early flint scatters on the uplands or the coast , or the location of a settlement site , whether in a cave or not , can rarely be divorced from other contemporary sites in the vicinity , even if widely separated . |