Example sentences of "scattered around " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Scattered around the London suburbs , or in provincial towns like Sheffield , Brighton and Bradford , these pioneers had only limited access to capital resources , and their companies never grew to any real size . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Here we were in a restaurant where books on croquet lay scattered around the place . |
| 5 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 6 | Through the holes in the side of the Hongkong Banking Group building in Bishopsgate , papers fluttered on desks , books were scattered around the rooms . |
| 7 | There are numerous crofting townships scattered around this coastal strip , wherever areas of calcareous wind-blown shell-sand , sand dunes , and pasture ( machair ) occur . |
| 8 | There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more . |
| 9 | After years of living in several buildings scattered around Soho Square and Oxford Street , Fitch was looking for a permanent headquarters to physically unite its ‘ multi-disciplinary ’ practice . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're an observant little possum , ’ said the Dame approvingly , noting my interest in the valuable art treasures scattered around the room . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bomber Command was divided into Groups , each of which consisted of a Headquarters and up to a dozen satellite air fields scattered around it in the countryside , from East Anglia up to Yorkshire . |
| 13 | Scattered around the lip of the hole were several clumps of brown fur . |
| 14 | It has 14 regional information centres scattered around the country . |
| 15 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 16 | Carpets were drenched with alcohol and condoms were scattered around his room , said a spokesman for Berlin 's Grand Hotel Esplanade which is sending the bill to Kennedy 's record company EMI . |
| 17 | However , a certain number of these works are obviously scattered around the world ’ . |
| 18 | Outside India there are 1,600–2,500 tigers ( depending on whose estimate you believe ) , scattered around South-East Asia , China and Russia . |
| 19 | Something like 4m people who speak Greek , or think of themselves as Greek , are scattered around the world . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 22 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 23 | Ted 's apartment was in the East Village , an assortment of dank rooms almost devoid of furniture but with a variety of rugs and cushions and mattresses scattered around the floor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was often reflected in the pattern of settlement , with most villages consisting of the dwellings of agricultural workers and with the farmers scattered around the parish on their own farms but away from the centre of the village itself . |
| 26 | There might also be quite a number of very much smaller black holes scattered around the universe , formed not by the collapse of stars but by the collapse of highly compressed regions in the hot , dense medium that is believed to have existed shortly after the big bang in which the universe originated . |
| 27 | Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily . |
| 28 | The remains of their meal were scattered around them , and some paper sheets that were tugged by the slight breeze off the sea . |
| 29 | We know this because we find , scattered around the chromosomes , long strings of DNA text that are identical . |
| 30 | But as we have seen , the text will in fact be repeatedly scattered around the available ‘ gaps ’ on the disc . |