Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each household was given a number of strips scattered between the desirable and less desirable fields . |
| 2 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The laser-Doppler anemometer measures velocity by measuring the Doppler shift of light scattered within the moving fluid . |
| 5 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 6 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We were just taking some reciprocal photos for my kid , ’ Florian explained insouciantly as he stood up , indicating the photos of Joni scattered over the glass-topped coffee-table . |
| 9 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Cutlasses can clearly be seen secured over gun ports , with boarding hooks and axes nearby and the bones of sailors scattered in the silt . |
| 12 | A couple of handfuls scattered over the area surrounding the sett , an hour or two before dusk , will often convince the resident brocks that it 's worth staying a while longer before going off to forage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To make matters worse the dopey director 's gone on holiday leaving the studios in right two-and-eight , with scripts scattered to the four winds , disgruntled stars stuck in the middle of filming and a very depressed receptionist sitting around doing nothing . |
| 15 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact , he has even carried out a number of burial-at-sea ceremonies with ashes scattered across the waves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Juggling three phones at once , she attempted to concentrate on placing and receiving orders from clients scattered across the world . |
| 20 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 21 | Anita decided firmly , gazing in amazement and considerable admiration as Laura juggled three phones at once , while placing and receiving orders from customers scattered across the world . |
| 22 | Many teachers mentioned the difficulties of doing practical work in classrooms without storage space , in rooms scattered over a large campus , in departments without money to buy equipment . |
| 23 | 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 . ) . |
| 24 | As some of you will know by this time , the Centre provides custom-build courses , day schools , residential schools and other projects , for thousands of adult students in this region — mainly at locations scattered throughout the area , towns and villages of Sussex , but some here on the campus — and by so doing it tries to provide a strong functional link that helps to keep the university in touch with the community . |