Example sentences of "[noun pl] scattered [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 2 | I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her . |
| 3 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 4 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
| 5 | As a rough approximation the Earth 's present magnetic field can be represented by a regular dipolar pattern ( similar to that produced when a bar magnet is held beneath iron filings scattered on a sheet of paper ) . |
| 6 | There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out . |
| 7 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |
| 8 | This army unit was the headquarters of all searchlight detachments scattered throughout the area of Holderness , and they were all supplied and maintained from Rise . |
| 9 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 10 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 11 | This was often reflected in the pattern of settlement , with most villages consisting of the dwellings of agricultural workers and with the farmers scattered around the parish on their own farms but away from the centre of the village itself . |
| 12 | Away to the south-west , well clear of the town , is the Plough or Great Bear — six or seven distant lights scattered among the farms around Oatrigg . |
| 13 | Nowadays botanists divide the cycad-like plants into two major groups which may not be particularly closely related : the Cycadales , which include the living species , and the Bennettitales , an important Mesozoic group of plants which have smaller fructifications scattered among the bases of the leaves . |
| 14 | There are ropes , buckets and other building materials scattered about the floor of the Wheel Room . |
| 15 | They lived in small villages scattered over the landscape in varying degrees of density . |
| 16 | The village is called Croysant le Wold ; it 's a lost village , more or less — there are a lot of lost villages scattered round the feet of these hills , no more than a grange and a church still standing . |
| 17 | There are many other watermills scattered throughout the marshlands in addition to the wonderful Alvingham example . |
| 18 | The official was a member of the staff of the Procurator General who had responsibility for the smooth running of the Correctional Labour Colonies scattered across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 19 | The papers scattered through the contents of the Quaker Oats box have not come from the Unit 's files . |
| 20 | Why , again , are the planned towns scattered about the country in so haphazard a way , and so different in age and social type — Salisbury 's plan belongs to the thirteenth century ( Fig. 9 , p. 93 ) , Middlesbrough 's to the nineteenth . |
| 21 | The ‘ cluster ’ , under such an arrangement , is a dispersed group of residential facilities and ordinary dwellings scattered round the locality in which individuals receiving the service live . |
| 22 | The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether this is optional … is ‘ being severed in two , bowels turned to ashes and these ashes scattered over the face of the earth . ’ |