Example sentences of "scattered [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 2 | Philip 's Mum scattered the oven chips on the baking tray . |
| 3 | He hath showed strength with his arm ; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts . |
| 4 | Around him lay scattered the festering remains of half a dozen meals . |
| 5 | A world of sorrow scattered the sharp scent of wet ash and brimstone from him and curved rejected from her closed , tortured pattern . |
| 6 | In an adjoining field a sower , a basket cradled in his hands , scattered the life-bearing seeds , whilst behind him two young boys danced and cavorted , swinging their slings to drive off the marauding crows and ravens . |
| 7 | She shook her head slightly , trying to clear her thoughts , but a tiny suspicion , the merest thread of possibility persisted : it just might be that the man whose initial scattered the pages of Elise 's diary before abruptly ceasing , three weeks before her death , could have some bearing on the mystery . |
| 8 | The weather had turned a chill grey , and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires . |
| 9 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 10 | The front door slammed distantly , the Aston Martin 's tyres scattered the gravel noisily on the drive , and still she stood there , torn inside , unmoving , until Charles came to see if she was coming with them to the hospital to visit Lucy . |
| 11 | Now the political culture of the time was such that the political system which actually emerged is rather different from that which some of the people who went to Philadelphia thought would emerge and that really reflects a number of changes , one that America has grown from four million to two hundred and fifty million , two , from being isolated , remote and scattered the population has consolidated and grown , America has become a vast industrial power as opposed to a , an agricultural nation and all these have had their impact upon the importance and scope of government . |
| 12 | In Holland about 400 tons of lead shot are scattered every year . |
| 13 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 14 | The French , the Dutch , and the Spanish were ready to attack them , and over so widely scattered a set of islands the attacker would always find some weak spot to invade and devastate . |
| 15 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 16 | Among the manufacturers houses are likewise scattered an infinite number of cottages or small dwellings , in which dwell the workmen which are employed , the women and children of whom are always busy carding , spinning , &C. so that no hands being unemploy 'd , all can gain their bread , even from the youngest to the antient ; hardly any thing above four years old , but its hands are sufficient to itself … |