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

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1 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 .
2 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 . ) .
3 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 .
4 This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma .
5 You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor .
6 The debris scattered to the ground .
7 Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan .
8 A population concentrated in cities was more accessible to the influence of new ideological trends than a population scattered through the countryside .
9 ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs .
10 The chicks are placed on a surface scattered with a mix of food grains and pebbles of about the same size and colour of the food .
11 She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico .
12 Some dry leaves or grass scattered at the base of the pit will provide the ferret with some comfort .
13 It smashed , and machinery scattered over the ground .
14 If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling .
15 Here she was , buck-naked , in her bathroom with an equally undressed man , with twenty thousand dollars ' worth of jewellery scattered on the floor between them .
16 She glanced over the assortment of floats and lead shot scattered on the ground beside him .
17 A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake .
18 Another powerful smell , of decaying rubbish , came mainly from the ash-pits at the far end of the corridor , but also from a deposit scattered over the floor .
19 There are similar pieces of paving stone scattered on a portion of your boatyard property . ’
20 Impact attitudes can vary from a skimming ground contact with a wreckage trail up to one kilometre long , such as the Turkish DC-10 near Paris , or merely a deep crater with pieces of wreckage scattered in every direction round it , as when a BEA Vanguard crashed vertically into the ground in Belgium in October 1971 .
21 The Mambo who had sat beside Mait joined the priestesses in running for the cemetery gates , while the rest of the congregation scattered to the winds , fleeing the hail of bullets that crisscrossed the poteau mitan .
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