Example sentences of "[adv] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If the highest bidder turns out to be a scrap dealer , then it is to be hoped that an exchange can be effected between XH558 and one of the deteriorating examples of the type which are still fairly widely scattered within the UK .
3 The rocks were widely scattered in the process .
4 The figs are widely scattered in the forests , however , so a troop ranges over much more ground than does one of brown capuchins .
5 Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun .
6 Except when you are hobbling around dispatching shot after shot into the beautifully manicured lakes thoughtfully scattered around the landscape , leaving a trail of Band-Aids in your wake .
7 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 .
8 However , a certain number of these works are obviously scattered around the world ’ .
9 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 .
10 ( a ) One solution ( which assumes such destinations are sparsely scattered within the instruction stream ) is to force instructions which are jump destinations to be on word boundaries ; this is the method used on the CDC 6600 computer .
11 Yarrell is publishing the British birds quarto size — and about one thousand other niny tiny Works are in progress to assist in the mass of confusion already scattered over the World . ’
12 In his first pleasure at being admitted to this inner circle of learning he had compared it to Dante 's Paradiso , in which the saints and patriarchs and virgins sat in orderly ranks in a circular formation , a huge rose , and also the leaves of a huge volume , once scattered through the universe , now gathered .
13 Following her , he gave a soft grunt of laughter at the sight of their clothes still scattered about the floor .
14 The old bricks were still scattered over the foreshore .
15 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 .
16 Sheet music was open on a stand , ‘ The Isle of Capri ’ ; there was more scattered on the floor .
17 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 .
18 But as we have seen , the text will in fact be repeatedly scattered around the available ‘ gaps ’ on the disc .
19 He leaned forward to retrieve one of the ejected cartridges now scattered on the tiled floor around his feet .
20 The masterpieces he once owned by Leonardo , Correggio , Veronese , Rubens , Holbein , Breughel , Dürer , and Titian are now scattered among the world 's major art galleries .
21 Now once again lights and darks are juxtaposed arbitrarily to create a sense of shallow relief , and are evenly scattered over the entire picture surface to maintain a compositional balance .
22 haphazardly scattered over the earth ,
23 An incident electron wave singly scattered to the detector by atom α , and another electron wave doubly scattered by atoms α and β before reaching the detector , can be written ( refs 21 , 22 ; P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) respectively , where the exponents represent the phases of the scattered waves relative to the origin , and are the scattering factors for singly and doubly scattered waves respectively , containing curved-wave effects .
24 The first group contains a wave singly scattered by the adatom , denoted as , and all the waves doubly scattered first by the adatom and then by a substrate atom , denoted as as , i , where i is a substrate atom near the adatom , and the summation is over all the doubly scattered waves with sufficient large amplitudes .
25 The wave singly scattered by the adatom is a reference wave , with its origin at the adatom , and the doubly scattered waves in the first group are the object waves .
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 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 .
28 Two-thirds of the laity live scattered across the diocese .
29 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 .
30 In the 1983 Report this was changed to ‘ East European non-market economies ’ and by 1988 the communist countries were either scattered in the ‘ developing economies ’ groups or under the anodyne label of ‘ nonreporting nonmembers ’ .
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