Example sentences of "[noun pl] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 2 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas . |
| 5 | To make matters worse , all the inventions are hidden in the various objects scattered around the cave system , so you 'll need all your wits about you if you 're to do it . |
| 6 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
| 7 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 8 | Each household was given a number of strips scattered between the desirable and less desirable fields . |
| 9 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . |
| 12 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 13 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 14 | Looking around , his glance fell on the twigs scattered on the ground where Cassowary had thrown them . |
| 15 | There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more . |
| 16 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
| 17 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
| 18 | Juggling three phones at once , she attempted to concentrate on placing and receiving orders from clients scattered across the world . |
| 19 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 20 | The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out . |
| 22 | They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence . |
| 23 | ‘ We have a number of small part-time one-person branches scattered over a wide rural area — the furthest one is 40 miles distant from headquarters . |
| 24 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Without uttering a word , fitzAlan jerked Isabel roughly forward , at the same time riffling through the parchments scattered over the table . |
| 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 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |