Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had no available extended family : there were Potters scattered about North Yorkshire who had not been seen since Bill 's Congregationalist parents had cast him off for unbelief . |
| 2 | In some of these places direct contact with Cluny was slight , in some it was frequent ; but it was not until the middle of the eleventh century that Cluny began to form an order — a group of houses scattered about Europe owing direct allegiance to her . |
| 3 | SCATTERED about Merseyside are amateur opera and drama companies , the quality of whose productions and standard of performance would seriously worry many a professional outfit . |
| 4 | Indeed , the Abu Khadras were one of the largest families in Palestine , their orchards and property scattered between Jaffa , Jerusalem and Gaza . |
| 5 | The waters of the Torres Strait — a narrow stretch of Pacific containing a series of 150 islands and cays scattered between Cape York and Papua New Guinea — are being threatened by industrial operations , including mining and oil drilling . |
| 6 | It 's one of nine scattered through Europe and until recently was the only one not allowing smoking . |
| 7 | Nynex Corp 's New York Telephone says it has rerouted 2,000 telephone lines from the World Trade Center to tenants ' temporary offices scattered through Manhattan since Friday 's explosion ; it says it has also installed 1,000 new lines and 100 T1 high speed dedicated lines since the emergency . |
| 8 | Throughout the cavern , men looked about at the commotion , and those in the vicinity scattered for cover , while the two scientists cast terrified glances at the huge expanse of drums and called in vain for the guards not to shoot . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1981 I investigated this pattern of variation by surveying seven towns scattered throughout Britain : Bristol , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle upon Tyne and Sheffield . |
| 10 | Tasmania , Nepal and elsewhere have found their way into collections scattered throughout Britain . |
| 11 | To film the Marathon , Winner used eleven cameras scattered throughout Rome , to give the impression of a continuous event . |
| 12 | Untag has 2,800 officials — including 1,100 policemen — scattered throughout Namibia to keep an eye on proceedings at 358 polling booths . |
| 13 | Mr Jackson , who lives in Green Lane , Barnard Castle , believes a folk museum would be an ideal way of collecting records on the town which are scattered throughout archives in the North East . |
| 14 | Accompanying the arrival of peace were the problems of reorganising the economies , and the gigantic task of sorting out the millions of refugees and displaced persons scattered throughout Europe . |
| 15 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated in November that 581,000 refugees from former Yugoslavia were scattered throughout Europe . |
| 16 | Here the schools and particularly Bologna and its students , as well as the judges scattered throughout Europe , began to take an interest . |
| 17 | The select band of customers scattered throughout Hampshire who know Carol 's work were not at all surprised when they learned who had created the rings . |
| 18 | Apart from the Rhineland , Romanesque examples are scattered throughout Germany . |
| 19 | Scattered throughout Poulantzas ' studies of the phases of capitalism are appeals to the strategies adopted by classes in order to realise their interests . |
| 20 | ‘ The first command was ‘ Let the gases which are scattered throughout space be collected together and with them let worlds be formed ’ , then the gases were brought together into whirling circulating masses [ Nebulae ] . ’ |
| 21 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 22 | Polished linoleum , a shining , glass sea , with rugs scattered like islands . |
| 23 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 24 | Out on the ramp beneath the lights and the arrows of rain and the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts : fathers , mothers , children , the old , scattered like leaves in the wind . |
| 25 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 26 | That scattered like twigs |
| 27 | The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall , and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark . |
| 28 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 29 | The world closed quickly in on them and was limited to the gleam and crackle of the dying fire before them , to the firelight on each other 's faces , and the pale darkness of the sky above them scattered with stars . |
| 30 | The land was scattered with stars . |