Example sentences of "and scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor . |
| 8 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 9 | As a result , the inert and living organisms were disassembled and scattered into the ether . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |