Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
| 2 | One had toppled over , and eight oranges had rolled and scattered about the small compartment . |
| 3 | Each household was given a number of strips scattered between the desirable and less desirable fields . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bruno 's vista of an infinite plurality of star systems , scattered through an infinite universe , was unacceptable because of its relativistic implications . |
| 6 | A typical andesite is light grey in colour , contains about 60 per cent of silica ( silicon dioxide ) and has a conspicuous number of small white crystals , a few millimetres across , scattered throughout a fine-grained homogeneous matrix . |
| 7 | By mid-1959 , therefore , there existed , scattered throughout the selective schools , [ … ] a number of teachers , partly in contact with one another through the associations and conferences , interested in the possibility of changing the nature of school mathematics and aware of possible sources of support for this mission . |
| 8 | Using H-thymidine autoradiography , Deschner , Lipkin , et al have shown that in high-risk subjects , proliferating cells are not confined to the lower two thirds of the colonic crypts , as they are in normal subjects , but are scattered throughout the entire length of the gland . |
| 9 | Reaction primers match sequences in the ubiquitous interspersed repetitive sequences , of which about a million copies are scattered throughout the human genome . |
| 10 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 11 | Accommodation at the hotel is in thatched bungalows scattered throughout the native gardens , with superior bungalows providing an extra degree of luxury and well worth the additional supplement . |
| 12 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 13 | The point ( compared with cooperative acquisition ) is that all the purchased items are centralized at a site on the University of Chicago , rather than scattered amongst the participating libraries . |
| 14 | Scattered amongst the infinite variety of trees and plants are picturesque villages whose white-walled cottages have blended into the light-coloured landscape to give Ibiza the nickname ‘ La Isla Blanca ’ — The White Island . |
| 15 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 16 | Their houses , no more than huts , were scattered along the sunken tracks or half hidden in woods , or else perched on the slopes of the low hills . |
| 17 | This common feeling , shared by the knights from the shires scattered along the Conservative back benches in the Commons , was more than mere aristocratic disdain , although if you were already seated in a large country estate it cast a different light upon the tiresome business of dealing with the Whitehall bureaucracy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The western part of Mordovia is scattered with the Correctional Labour Colonies that are administered by the Ministry of the Interior in the distant capital . |
| 20 | As it grows , the grass is scattered with the dusky blue and magenta petals of meadow cranesbill and , as the hay ripens , seeding heads of sorrel colour its sunset-gold with red . |
| 21 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 22 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 25 | Friendship networks so old and intimate that the differences and difficulties could collapse into wild mirth at any instant , or could flare into fights which , however vicious at the time , would not actually change anything nor prevent her and all her friends coming together again soon after , at identical but different pine kitchen tables , scattered in a loose lop-sided circle around central London . |
| 26 | An increasing population , particularly one scattered in an unplanned fashion throughout a region , increases substantially the cost of service provision . |
| 27 | It was in fact , ‘ by no means a bare collection of what was scattered in the former … but a performance so well designed and so well executed , … very acceptable to all who make gardening either their profession or diversion. , |
| 28 | Nevertheless , argyrophil micronodules were often seen , scattered in the fundic mucosa . |
| 29 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 30 | The laser-Doppler anemometer measures velocity by measuring the Doppler shift of light scattered within the moving fluid . |