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

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1 No previous study of Scottish medieval prices exists , mainly because information on the subject is scarce , and scattered widely through a number of sources .
2 The auk tribe ( guillemots , razorbills and puffins ) , which spend the winter scattered widely over the ocean , will also be heading inshore towards their breeding cliffs .
3 He produced two large atlases of estate maps ; the Stowe Atlas of thirty-three manuscript maps on vellum , detailing estates owned by the Grenville family around Kilkhampton , and the Lanhydrock Atlas of four large volumes containing 258 manuscript maps on vellum , compiled between 1694 and 1699 , of properties scattered widely over the county belonging to the Robartes family .
4 World War I brought big orders for standard Great Central 2-8-0s for the Railway Operating Division and these were scattered widely across the world .
5 ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . )
6 Volcanoes are not scattered randomly around the world .
7 They may be scattered randomly throughout the sarcoplasm or arranged between fibrils opposite the Z-disks ; in the flight-muscles of the Odonata they form large slab-like structures and in the powerful fibrillar indirect flight-muscles of Hymenoptera and Diptera the giant mitochondria form conspicuous " sarcosomes " .
8 What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ?
9 The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor .
10 In the last two decades of the fourth century a fair number of cities , scattered all over the empire , experienced riots in which fanatical Christian mobs destroyed temples and ‘ purged the idols ’ .
11 Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart .
12 The most that could be offered would be autonomous areas within regional self-government ‘ towards which members of the respective nationalities , scattered all over the country or even all over the world , would gravitate and with which they could enter into relations and free associations ’ — some measure of accommodation to Bauerism .
13 There were American military bases scattered all over the Islands : they were there to protect the Pacific .
14 The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House .
15 There were incendiaries scattered all over the airfield for days , being picked up and made safe — another job for the armourers .
16 The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country .
17 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
18 There were bodies scattered all over the road , people lying on the pavement and propped against walls .
19 Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually .
20 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
21 With the enclosure of the open fields and the redistribution of the land mostly in compact blocks instead of strips scattered all over the parish , one would have expected the old open-field village to disintegrate as the village farmers built new farmsteads on their allotments .
22 Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it .
23 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
24 The majority of the deaf and dumb were still leading wretched and isolated lives , scattered all over the country singly or in small groups , untouched by change and ignorant of the world at large .
25 On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central .
26 The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape .
27 I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here .
28 But even when there were teams of twenty or thirty workmen ‘ tripping over each other ’ , as Laura told a friend , with beds scattered all over the place and no curtains , ‘ it still has a very romantic atmosphere ’ .
29 and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation
30 and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation
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