Example sentences of "[noun] scatter [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The beam of X-rays was of course scattered by the collision , but Compton discovered that the wavelengths of some of the scattered X-rays had increased — they had lost energy . |
6 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
7 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
8 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
9 | The near vertical impact had made a crater some 20 feet deep with fragments of the aircraft scattered within a radius of about 300 yards , but the major units of the horizontal tail surfaces were found several kilometres from the main wreckage area , clearly indicating in-flight separation of these components . |
10 | In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . |
11 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
12 | Looking around , his glance fell on the twigs scattered on the ground where Cassowary had thrown them . |
13 | There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more . |
14 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
15 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
16 | Juggling three phones at once , she attempted to concentrate on placing and receiving orders from clients scattered across the world . |
17 | The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom . |
18 | Besides a domestic textile industry scattered through every town and village , certain small towns had specialities that served wider markets ; steel knives at Guadix , horse rugs at Morella , textiles and pottery at Puente del Arzobispo , sickles at La Solana , in La Mancha . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma . |
21 | They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence . |
22 | Since α is solvent and temperature dependent a more characteristic dimension to measure for the polymer is which can be calculated from light scattering in a theta-solvent , or indirectly as next described . |
23 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
24 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
25 | Without uttering a word , fitzAlan jerked Isabel roughly forward , at the same time riffling through the parchments scattered over the table . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 ) . |
29 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
30 | The debris scattered to the ground . |