Example sentences of "scattered [prep] [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tasmania , Nepal and elsewhere have found their way into collections scattered throughout Britain . |
| 10 | To film the Marathon , Winner used eleven cameras scattered throughout Rome , to give the impression of a continuous event . |
| 11 | Untag has 2,800 officials — including 1,100 policemen — scattered throughout Namibia to keep an eye on proceedings at 358 polling booths . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated in November that 581,000 refugees from former Yugoslavia were scattered throughout Europe . |
| 14 | Here the schools and particularly Bologna and its students , as well as the judges scattered throughout Europe , began to take an interest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Apart from the Rhineland , Romanesque examples are scattered throughout Germany . |
| 17 | Scattered throughout Poulantzas ' studies of the phases of capitalism are appeals to the strategies adopted by classes in order to realise their interests . |
| 18 | There must be many thousands of them scattered round Britain . |
| 19 | Tomorrow they will go back to their units , Which are scattered from Hong Kong to Berlin , Northern Ireland and all over Great Britain . |
| 20 | Practical problems were caused for parliamentarians by the fact that Community bodies were scattered in Strasbourg , Luxembourg and Brussels . |
| 21 | Other pieces , scattered over Israel in various universities and research institutes , date from 1300 BC to the eighteenth century , shedding light on Egyptian , Roman and early Christian history . |
| 22 | After he died of a heart attack in 1968 on the dock next to his boat at the Waikiki Yacht Club , his ashes were scattered over Kalahuewehe break . |
| 23 | There are some absolute gems of solos scattered over Ayer 's albums of the last 15 years — check out ‘ Falling Up ’ or ‘ As Close As You Think ’ for the most recent . |
| 24 | His ashes were scattered over Eton playing-fields from his own plane . |
| 25 | Got him buried yet , or cremated and his ashes scattered down Threadneedle Street or round the corner in your wine bar on the floor with the sawdust ? |
| 26 | Ash 's books were most regrettably scattered across Europe and America . |
| 27 | The marriage restored the fortunes of the Grosvenor family , which had lost most of its enormous estates scattered across Britain , by siding with the King during the Civil War . |
| 28 | IBIsys has been available for four years and has around 15,000 customers scattered across Italy , Europe , Canada , South Africa and Australia . |
| 29 | Eventually , she overcame her fear — with other schoolchildren she had sometimes ganged up to cry ‘ witch ’ at Kitty , delighted when she ran after them , gleefully scudding away like infant demons scattered by Beelzebub . |
| 30 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |