Example sentences of "[coord] scattered [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forms tell strongly on the curving surface and the figure-zone is widened for them , its background left bare or scattered with small flower-shapes , a calyx of pointed leaves or petals at the base and the areas of fine lines reduced to narrow borders of two or three ( figs. 7 and 8 ) . |
| 2 | Relevant statutory provisions may be grouped together or scattered through the judgment . |
| 3 | Only a part of the electromagnetic spectrum can be used for remote sensing for , as noted earlier , energy in some spectral bands is absorbed or scattered by the atmosphere . |
| 4 | The shackles , the whip and the hoe , these emblems of slavery , lie broken and scattered on the ground ; while the plough , the sickle and the flail , emblematical of improved and free labour are conspicuously displayed . |
| 5 | The principal Border fishery is of course the mighty River Tweed , and there are a number of excellent trout lochs , near Hawick , and scattered along the coastal plain and in the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 6 | If someone has offered you free riding on their horse they are not going to appreciate finding their yard covered in droppings and scattered with grooming kit after you have left , or that you abandoned a sweaty horse without seeing to it after you have ridden . |
| 7 | We did n't have to look far before we found a hollow in the corner of a field , riddled with holes and scattered with fresh earth and droppings . |
| 8 | Spiced with soldier 's slang and scattered with a mix of European languages , it is at times a shocking , at other times a sentimental , but always a worthwhile account . |
| 9 | Crowned with its frothy whip and scattered with coloured comfits , the Trifle was a very pretty dish for a party . |
| 10 | The carpet is pale green and scattered with Oriental rugs . |
| 11 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 12 | ‘ The average number of vehicles passed through the shops for repairs annually is 8,100 … . there are 3,200 employed at Wolverton , while outside we have 2,000 at Crewe , Carlisle and Willesden , and scattered over the line ’ . |
| 13 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 14 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 15 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 16 | As a result , the inert and living organisms were disassembled and scattered into the ether . |
| 17 | Oxford 's forwards were slow and scattered in getting to the breakdown . |
| 18 | A kind of traumatized folk-punk , shifting fitfully between grace and frenzy , extremes of heat and cold , their debut album is the choreography of a body possessed and scattered by dread : as The Stud Brothers put it , music like ‘ a punch , accentuating and projecting every hiss , mutter and scream … so exact and punctual it 's simply sublime . ’ |
| 19 | Fish and dolphins that live in extremely muddy water can not see because , although there is light , it is obstructed and scattered by the dirt in the water . |
| 20 | This is not too difficult to understand for the ‘ second agricultural revolution ’ has brought about a drastic decline in the number of agricultural workers since the war and has left those who remain more isolated and scattered throughout the countryside as a result . |
| 21 | I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities . |
| 22 | The social provisions of the Treaty of Rome ( 1957 ) are relatively limited and scattered throughout its various parts . |
| 23 | Everyone was drinking but scattered at the sight of Bill Sykes but this little girl went back on stage to finish her drink ! |
| 24 | Often their estates were not concentrated in a single province , but scattered over a number . |
| 25 | And yet , for all its size , this remained an unusual sort of an empire , not consolidated , in the customary imperial manner , in some glossy West End towerblock but scattered around Notting Hill in a random assortment of properties , in varying states of ramshackle informality . |