Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 2 | A survey of the breeding population between 1965 and 1967 recorded about 250 breeding pairs , mainly distributed in coastal marshes and the permanent grasslands of the river valleys and levels , but with some pairs scattered in small areas of marsh in the interior . |
| 3 | She took his put-down without rancour , allowing her gaze to drift over the paperwork scattered in separate clumps of disorder at intervals along the work-bench . |
| 4 | His sister was a member of an Order in Scotland and his five brothers , all senior to him , were scattered in various parts of Britain and America , and so the little village had nothing left to hold him . |
| 5 | Past research has revealed numerous different E. coli plasmids scattered among different strains of the bacterium . |
| 6 | The rest were scattered across various parts of northern Yugoslavia , although the largest concentration had been around and to the west of Zagreb , the capital of Croatia . |