Example sentences of "scatter [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It just lifted the roofing from the base of the stack and hen houses just scattered all over the place . |
| 32 | Until the move in the 1860s to a new building with adequate space , it was dispersed on shelves scattered all over the old one , with the books crowded three rows deep on the shelves so that only those in the front row were visible , and no catalogue of it existed . |
| 33 | You 'll what you 'll end up with is different organisations managing houses scattered all over the city . |
| 34 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 35 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 36 | and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ? |
| 37 | And there 's this thing scattered all over the place |
| 38 | We have offices — they are in the phone books — scattered all over the county , local offices . |
| 39 | Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain . |
| 40 | The crunch is that in September , Hong Kong 's rugby players , like most other expatriates in the Colony , will be enjoying their summer holidays — many of them scattered all around the world — and the rugby season would still have not begun . |
| 41 | The cigarettes scattered all around the floor . |
| 42 | Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country . |
| 43 | He called it the Arnold Register , after American general Hap Arnold , and set about tracking down thousands of people , now scattered all round the world . |
| 44 | Macrophages are crucial cells in the immune and inflammatory events ongoing in the intestinal musoca ; being scattered just beneath the epithelium , they represent the first line of defence . |
| 45 | There were fields on either side with occasional stands of pine trees scattered unpredictably over the landscape . |
| 46 | Apart from some general points , listed here ( as well as scattered elsewhere in the book where especially relevant , such as in Chapter 10 , Starting Your Own Business ) , giving tax planning advice is the job for a specialist ; and moreover one who is fully conversant with your financial affairs , so that he can advise in the light of your own particular circumstances . |
| 47 | The searcher who depends solely on browsing at the shelves can miss other related items scattered elsewhere in the collection . |
| 48 | For afters , no stone was left unturned : Wall 's Viennetta vied with two flavours of Bird 's Instant Whip for the affections of the eaters , while scattered tantalizingly around the periphery of the table stood bowls of orange-flavoured Matchmakers and a couple of full bottles of Bailey 's Irish Cream . |
| 49 | A radar pulse scattered back by the planet is spread over a distance range which exceeds that of the transmitted pulse by an amount equal to the radius of the planet . |
| 50 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 51 | And that means fiddly switches scattered haphazardly across the dash and centre console like bits of shot fired from a blunderbuss . |
| 52 | In some cases , devitrification begins at centres scattered regularly throughout the whole mass , and this can produce very attractive effects . |
| 53 | Exhibition displays , files , portfolios and furniture seem to be scattered around with an air of sudden improvisation . |
| 54 | Initially this left the larger machines , with consoles scattered around on the end of RS232 cables , somewhat behind . |
| 55 | Around the catafalque are some of his most powerful magical items , which lie scattered around in a strange quasi-circular pattern as if they were being drawn to the catafalque in a spiralling motion and suddenly stopped . |
| 56 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 57 | It did not surprise Hugh to see that the stack had been scattered abroad from the original untidy pile dumped thus , and most of the seasoned timber removed , leaving the flattened bushes plain to be seen . |
| 58 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 59 | A scrawny cloth cap and neck nods to the Pope who has got himself several small stalls supported with bent cardboard boxes scattered variously along the roadsides . |
| 60 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |