Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] scatter [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out . |
| 2 | They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence . |
| 3 | In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . |
| 4 | The normal activity you 'll find in a primary classroom is groups of children all doing different things scattered round the room . |
| 5 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 6 | The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings . |
| 7 | In 1940 I was fortunate to find a summer job in the local tomato factory , one of the innumerable similar factories scattered in the Parma province . |
| 8 | This Neutrino sea arises from the nuclear fusion reactions taking place in the countless stars scattered throughout the universe , and these minute particles pass through our bodies at a rate estimated at one million to one billion per square inch per second . |
| 9 | The village is called Croysant le Wold ; it 's a lost village , more or less — there are a lot of lost villages scattered round the feet of these hills , no more than a grange and a church still standing . |
| 10 | The ‘ cluster ’ , under such an arrangement , is a dispersed group of residential facilities and ordinary dwellings scattered round the locality in which individuals receiving the service live . |
| 11 | On the book 's back cover is an elegant serene photograph of his sunken garden four august boulders scattered in a brick pattern , sprinkled with water which Noguchi built in New York 's Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza in 1964 . |
| 12 | Six years later a papal envoy passing the city reported scarcely two hundred houses still standing , with human bones scattered across the countryside . |
| 13 | Here in this room was virtually every shade of that colour — from the cobalt-blue draperies , scattered with little hyacinth flowers , to the sapphire-blue cushions scattered over the bed and the powder-blue carpet , thick and soft beneath her feet . |
| 14 | I do n't know whether this is optional … is ‘ being severed in two , bowels turned to ashes and these ashes scattered over the face of the earth . ’ |
| 15 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 16 | There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more . |
| 17 | And what if all Palestinians scattered around the world do return home ? |
| 18 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 19 | An appendix provides a ‘ getting started ’ introduction to the running of the many programs scattered throughout the book . |
| 20 | If a small child rejects medicine dispensed by one of the medical posts scattered throughout the region , parents will not persist in the face of the child 's refusal ( see Robarchek 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Industrially the area is dominated by light engineering and manufacturing in the major industrial estates of Park Royal , part of East Acton , Wembley trading estate , East Lane Wembley and a number of independent factories scattered throughout the borough . |
| 22 | Nowadays botanists divide the cycad-like plants into two major groups which may not be particularly closely related : the Cycadales , which include the living species , and the Bennettitales , an important Mesozoic group of plants which have smaller fructifications scattered among the bases of the leaves . |
| 23 | Luckily they are more likely to be used to collect the used parachutes scattered across the DZ . |
| 24 | To make matters worse , all the inventions are hidden in the various objects scattered around the cave system , so you 'll need all your wits about you if you 're to do it . |
| 25 | Below these slopes , north of the village and on various plots scattered throughout the commune , the vines are not as well sited , but they provide wines outshining other premiers crus . |
| 26 | The presence of minority groupings of Shiites in Turkey and Afghanistan , and pockets of Turkish-speaking Sunnites in Persia and the Caucasus ( not to mention the ubiquitous Christian Armenians and nomadic tribesmen scattered throughout the region ) ensure that there are numerous exceptions to the rule . |
| 27 | The island has 24 roomy bungalows scattered about the beachfront , each with a wide verandah and excellent facilities . |
| 28 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Next moment , he emerged into one of the many small clearings scattered about the forest . |