Example sentences of "[noun pl] scattered [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I later discovered that the area was one of those settled by the original Spanish conquistadores in the 1560s ; by 1980 , Loreto itself , still largely cut off from the outside world , consisted only of a church , a school and five houses , although there were many more Indian families in houses scattered through the surrounding forest . |
| 2 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 3 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 4 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 5 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 6 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 7 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 8 | By the time of his death in 346 , there were several thousand monks scattered about the Egyptian desert , and the principles underlying the monastic system were being transmitted elsewhere . |
| 9 | Many teachers mentioned the difficulties of doing practical work in classrooms without storage space , in rooms scattered over a large campus , in departments without money to buy equipment . |
| 10 | This common feeling , shared by the knights from the shires scattered along the Conservative back benches in the Commons , was more than mere aristocratic disdain , although if you were already seated in a large country estate it cast a different light upon the tiresome business of dealing with the Whitehall bureaucracy . |