Example sentences of "[noun pl] scatter about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 2 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
| 3 | The island has 24 roomy bungalows scattered about the beachfront , each with a wide verandah and excellent facilities . |
| 4 | In a short address by Solveig Skjelstad , the quests scattered about the hillside and heard how as a seven year old girl , she had helped remove the bodies from both crashes , to a barn on the farm , there the bodies were placed in coffins before being taken to Trondheim for burial . |
| 5 | There are ropes , buckets and other building materials scattered about the floor of the Wheel Room . |
| 6 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 7 | Instead , there are a number of tables and work benches scattered about the room , which is decorated with wall hangings and tapestries showing Daemons at play . |
| 8 | Next moment , he emerged into one of the many small clearings scattered about the forest . |