Example sentences of "[vb pp] throughout [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 3 | In the constructional steel industry sites where work is available are scattered throughout the UK and , as a result , employees in the industry know that travelling around the country is a feature of employment in it . |
| 4 | Many who stay at the abbey do so at the suggestion of members of the Iona Community , of which there are some 200 scattered throughout the UK . |
| 5 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Piecing together Keynes 's labour market analysis is not an easy task since the fragments are promiscuously scattered throughout the pages of the General Theory . |
| 8 | Similar bureaux — although far too few of them — are scattered throughout the country , and their addresses are on page 149 . |
| 9 | These are scattered throughout the country and include most of the variety of habitats in Japan . |
| 10 | Over eighty-five per cent of these are scattered throughout the country in small villages and hamlets . |
| 11 | In the remaining 10 control patients , there were occasional positive cells scattered throughout the lamina propria . |
| 12 | Instead of these days being taken together in the spring when the estimates were published , ‘ supply days ’ were scattered throughout the session so that the Opposition , which is allowed to choose the subjects , could always have some time available should it wish to raise some immediate aspect of government policy . |
| 13 | This Neutrino sea arises from the nuclear fusion reactions taking place in the countless stars scattered throughout the universe , and these minute particles pass through our bodies at a rate estimated at one million to one billion per square inch per second . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There are many other watermills scattered throughout the marshlands in addition to the wonderful Alvingham example . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For most of the year they live solitary lives , scattered throughout the forest . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the slips are not arranged in a chronological order and documents relating to the early modern period are scattered throughout the calendar . |
| 20 | In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . |
| 21 | The remains of duns , brochs , stone circles , burial chambers and standing stones lie scattered throughout the island . |
| 22 | Like much of France , vineyards were found scattered throughout the region but none of the eight farms visited grew any grapes . |
| 23 | The farmland remained but pit villages , with rows of terraced houses for the miners , were scattered throughout the region . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | The presence of minority groupings of Shiites in Turkey and Afghanistan , and pockets of Turkish-speaking Sunnites in Persia and the Caucasus ( not to mention the ubiquitous Christian Armenians and nomadic tribesmen scattered throughout the region ) ensure that there are numerous exceptions to the rule . |
| 26 | The facts on which you must build your argument are scattered throughout the statement of the problem in what the examiner thinks is flowing English , but which is sometimes anything but clear . |
| 27 | To call the Emperor 's troops an army is perhaps misleading , as there are really many different armies as well as garrison troops scattered throughout the Empire . |
| 28 | They are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came to China from Arabia as long ago as 651 and who still live scattered throughout the People 's Republic , preserving a way of life , a language and a religion that has more in common with Mecca than with the Orient . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The third level sees you walking like an Egyptian , braving the curse of the Pharaohs and cursing the tricks and traps liberally scattered throughout the tombs . |