Example sentences of "scatter [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a short address by Solveig Skjelstad , the quests scattered about the hillside and heard how as a seven year old girl , she had helped remove the bodies from both crashes , to a barn on the farm , there the bodies were placed in coffins before being taken to Trondheim for burial . |
| 2 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 3 | Paper streamers like coiled fuses were scattered between the plates and wine bottles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These are scattered throughout the country and include most of the variety of habitats in Japan . |
| 8 | In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . |
| 9 | Like much of France , vineyards were found scattered throughout the region but none of the eight farms visited grew any grapes . |
| 10 | They lie scattered amongst the hills and moorlands and skill using a compass and map is almost as important as skill using a fishing rod . |
| 11 | Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp . |
| 12 | Finally in despair they turned back for the fleet , but on approaching this , the ships all scattered under the impression that an enemy torpedo raid was coming in . |
| 13 | It resembles a schoolboy 's notes which have been scattered in the wind and hastily gathered together again with some pages missing and others out of sequence . |
| 14 | To the sensor it appears that all the energy has been reflected from point P on the ground whereas , in fact , it has not , because some has been scattered within the atmosphere and has never reached the ground at all . |
| 15 | Often , the tin oxide would be very thinly scattered within the lode and possibly mixed up with other minerals such as quartz , tourmaline and chlorite . |
| 16 | Here in this room was virtually every shade of that colour — from the cobalt-blue draperies , scattered with little hyacinth flowers , to the sapphire-blue cushions scattered over the bed and the powder-blue carpet , thick and soft beneath her feet . |
| 17 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 18 | I replied that we were studying and writing , a fact that was obvious from the books , dictionaries and papers scattered over the table and the bed . |
| 19 | His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club . |
| 20 | Threads were scattered on the surface and flour and sand trodden in to simulate dust and grit ( a major cause of wear ) and the cleaner 's overall efficiency was recorded . |
| 21 | All the rags of newspapers , that a mob will scatter , seemed to have been scattered on the sea and then danced and trodden on till mess was everywhere . |
| 22 | The body is a light brown with light red flecks scattered on the body and fins . |
| 23 | Memories died : and the dead dogs ' bones , picked bare by the vultures , had been scattered on the shingle or swept into the river now flooded with melted mountain snow . |
| 24 | A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry . |
| 25 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 26 | Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength . |
| 27 | When the mice had scattered across the carpet and melted into the shadows by the wainscoting , Alexandra picked up their home of five days and carried it back to her tower room . |
| 28 | Some of the waves of light will be scattered by the particle and this will indicate its position . |
| 29 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 30 | The three volcanoes concerned are about as widely scattered around the world as possible — Vesuvius in the Mediterranean , Krakatoa in Indonesia , and Mt Pelee in the Caribbean . |