Example sentences of "of [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 . |