Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] scattered [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map . |
| 2 | The beam of X-rays was of course scattered by the collision , but Compton discovered that the wavelengths of some of the scattered X-rays had increased — they had lost energy . |
| 3 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 4 | ‘ The attraction of the place is that it lies spot-on a ley line — an imaginary line linking a few hunks of granite scattered around the landscape , supposed to have been put there by our ancestors for their spiritual gigs . |
| 5 | Sayer has come to work as a laboratory assistant but he 's drawn to a group of patients scattered throughout the hospital . |
| 6 | Here she was , buck-naked , in her bathroom with an equally undressed man , with twenty thousand dollars ' worth of jewellery scattered on the floor between them . |
| 7 | Cutlasses can clearly be seen secured over gun ports , with boarding hooks and axes nearby and the bones of sailors scattered in the silt . |
| 8 | A couple of handfuls scattered over the area surrounding the sett , an hour or two before dusk , will often convince the resident brocks that it 's worth staying a while longer before going off to forage . |
| 9 | Impact attitudes can vary from a skimming ground contact with a wreckage trail up to one kilometre long , such as the Turkish DC-10 near Paris , or merely a deep crater with pieces of wreckage scattered in every direction round it , as when a BEA Vanguard crashed vertically into the ground in Belgium in October 1971 . |
| 10 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 11 | If I had been asked to decorate a flat to reflect McIllvanney 's character then I would have given him an East Belfast bar with sawdust scattered on the floor , King Billy strutting on the walls , and blood splattered across its tobacco-stained ceiling . |
| 12 | Juggling three phones at once , she attempted to concentrate on placing and receiving orders from clients scattered across the world . |
| 13 | Anita decided firmly , gazing in amazement and considerable admiration as Laura juggled three phones at once , while placing and receiving orders from customers scattered across the world . |
| 14 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 15 | As some of you will know by this time , the Centre provides custom-build courses , day schools , residential schools and other projects , for thousands of adult students in this region — mainly at locations scattered throughout the area , towns and villages of Sussex , but some here on the campus — and by so doing it tries to provide a strong functional link that helps to keep the university in touch with the community . |