Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 ] . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 5 | Shabby streets scattered with litter , full of houses where they 'd give you a bed and a bowl of cereal for a fiver , no questions asked . |
| 6 | At last the steep slope flattened and he reached the saddle scattered with quartz . |
| 7 | Naturally , ‘ Country Living ’ bed linens are in a pretty , chintzy fabric , and curtains scattered with wayside flowers flutter in the breeze . |
| 8 | Pour the garlic vinaigrette over and toss the salad , then serve immediately , scattered with cress . |
| 9 | dandruff scattered inside leather casks |
| 10 | Of these , in West Malaysia , two species roost singly in trees and ny short distances to feed upon trees which produce a few flowers all year round , and the third , Eonycteris spelaea , roosts , in large colonies in caves and can ny up to at least 35km from them to feed and take food from a wide range of flowers scattered in space and time . |
| 11 | They were scattered in panic by the Nez Perce warriors ' fierce fire . |
| 12 | The photographers scattered in panic as the bodyguard made a grab for the gunman . |
| 13 | Haitians of all political persuasions scattered in panic when the first shells , and even cannonballs , began to hit . |
| 14 | ‘ We are only doing our duty , gentlemen ’ — and returning to find books and food and clothes scattered in chaos on the floor . |
| 15 | All sorts of debris was scattered in profusion . |
| 16 | Dazzled , shielding their faces , the gang of men scattered in disorder . |
| 17 | At the same time I thought how few people , apart from Eliot , could have sat and telephoned from that desk : meanwhile , reflecting that it were more proper to appear to be contemplating the exterior than to be glancing at Eliot 's papers scattered in front of me . |
| 18 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 19 | Europeans had few military resources and the only significant American forces were scattered on occupation duties in Germany . |
| 20 | The court heard that when the Deputy County Engineer inspected the dump site on 15 April , he found four bags of pelleted asbestos exposed on the site , pellets scattered on part of the site and for 70 yards along the access road and one pellet at the entrance gate to the site . |
| 21 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 22 | The quantity R θ is often referred to as the Rayleigh ratio and is equal to where I is the intensity of the incident beam , iθ , is the quantity of light scattered per unit volume by one centre at an angle Θ to the incident beam , and r is the distance of the centre from the observer . |
| 23 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 24 | Waves singly scattered by substrate atoms and all the multiply scattered waves not involving the adatom are not included here , as they go to integral-order beam positions . |
| 25 | A kind of traumatized folk-punk , shifting fitfully between grace and frenzy , extremes of heat and cold , their debut album is the choreography of a body possessed and scattered by dread : as The Stud Brothers put it , music like ‘ a punch , accentuating and projecting every hiss , mutter and scream … so exact and punctual it 's simply sublime . ’ |
| 26 | It has been particularly effective in providing a secure home base for families that have been physically scattered by emigration and it seems quite possible that small-scale farming of this kind may enjoy a new vogue , with the greater appreciation of self-provisioning , especially for fuel , to say nothing of the scenic beauty of the places where it is carried on . |
| 27 | Outside India there are 1,600–2,500 tigers ( depending on whose estimate you believe ) , scattered around South-East Asia , China and Russia . |
| 28 | 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 . |