Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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31 I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest .
32 There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace .
33 One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems .
34 Similar cases are scattered through the records .
35 A population concentrated in cities was more accessible to the influence of new ideological trends than a population scattered through the countryside .
36 Barron never achieved the major work on heraldry for which his friends hoped ; his learning is scattered through the pages of the Ancestor and the Victoria County Histories .
37 And it is absurd to think that the painters of the Section d'Or and others , scattered through the Salon d'Automne , share any concern other than that of reacting against the sloppiness of Impressionism .
38 Relevant statutory provisions may be grouped together or scattered through the judgment .
39 The submissions may be drawn together but can appear anywhere in the judgment or they may simply also be scattered through the judgment amongst the judicial reasoning , which may itself be discursive .
40 The half-dozen letters from Summerchild that I have found scattered through the porridge oats box seem to be replies to letters from Serafin , but not one of Serafin 's letters has yet come to light .
41 The papers scattered through the contents of the Quaker Oats box have not come from the Unit 's files .
42 Bruno 's vista of an infinite plurality of star systems , scattered through an infinite universe , was unacceptable because of its relativistic implications .
43 This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma .
44 A typical andesite is light grey in colour , contains about 60 per cent of silica ( silicon dioxide ) and has a conspicuous number of small white crystals , a few millimetres across , scattered throughout a fine-grained homogeneous matrix .
45 An appendix provides a ‘ getting started ’ introduction to the running of the many programs scattered throughout the book .
46 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 .
47 The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom .
48 Like much of France , vineyards were found scattered throughout the region but none of the eight farms visited grew any grapes .
49 Charles Maclaren used to run his fishing course there and a devoted band of anglers return each year to battle with salmon and sea-trout in Naver , Mallart and Loch Hope ; or to enjoy marvellous trout fishing in the lochs scattered throughout the hills .
50 The remains of duns , brochs , stone circles , burial chambers and standing stones lie scattered throughout the island .
51 The underlying idea here is that every corporation , willy-nilly , acquires large amounts of information that is potentially useful in a competitive sense ; but that this information is scattered throughout the firm in its various divisions , units , departments and so on .
52 The farmland remained but pit villages , with rows of terraced houses for the miners , were scattered throughout the region .
53 There are , at present , over 46 parks and playing field sites under the control of the Belfast Parks Department , along with a Zoological Garden , a major tree and shrub nursery , seven cemeteries and historical graveyards and numerous open spaces scattered throughout the city .
54 Commons are scattered throughout the county , and although rights of common are fiercely defended they are rarely exercised , and many commons are returning to woodland .
55 Similar bureaux — although far too few of them — are scattered throughout the country , and their addresses are on page 149 .
56 These are scattered throughout the country and include most of the variety of habitats in Japan .
57 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 .
58 This army unit was the headquarters of all searchlight detachments scattered throughout the area of Holderness , and they were all supplied and maintained from Rise .
59 Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital .
60 Although the carriers are normally fully under the control of the computer , there is the facility for the work group to give commands to the computer from one of 40 VDUs scattered throughout the plant .
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