Example sentences of "[noun pl] scattered [prep] [art] [noun] of " 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 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There are ropes , buckets and other building materials scattered about the floor of the Wheel Room . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The papers scattered through the contents of the Quaker Oats box have not come from the Unit 's files . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |