Example sentences of "[noun] scattered [prep] [art] " 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 It 's near a place called Hackballs Cross , a nothing place , a couple of houses scattered on the map .
3 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 .
4 Where interviewers are centrally grouped they can be called together for a briefing session , when any queries can be raised and dealt with on the spot , but where large organizations have interviewers scattered about the country this may be a counsel of perfection , although peripatetic fieldwork supervisors do invaluable work in this as well as other areas .
5 To make matters worse , all the inventions are hidden in the various objects scattered around the cave system , so you 'll need all your wits about you if you 're to do it .
6 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 .
7 I glanced at my purse in her lap and the coins scattered on the bed beside her .
8 With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England .
9 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 . ) .
10 Each household was given a number of strips scattered between the desirable and less desirable fields .
11 She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet .
12 To make matters worse the dopey director 's gone on holiday leaving the studios in right two-and-eight , with scripts scattered to the four winds , disgruntled stars stuck in the middle of filming and a very depressed receptionist sitting around doing nothing .
13 The near vertical impact had made a crater some 20 feet deep with fragments of the aircraft scattered within a radius of about 300 yards , but the major units of the horizontal tail surfaces were found several kilometres from the main wreckage area , clearly indicating in-flight separation of these components .
14 In 1914 there were several German warships scattered throughout the Atlantic and Pacific oceans .
15 There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens .
16 She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached .
17 Looking around , his glance fell on the twigs scattered on the ground where Cassowary had thrown them .
18 There are also some decorative arts scattered around the museum , and one wishes there were more .
19 There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea .
20 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 ) .
21 Juggling three phones at once , she attempted to concentrate on placing and receiving orders from clients scattered across the world .
22 The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive .
23 When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field .
24 The Territorial Army recruits have spent only fourteen days in Guildford , having travelled from their units scattered throughout the United Kingdom .
25 Besides a domestic textile industry scattered through every town and village , certain small towns had specialities that served wider markets ; steel knives at Guadix , horse rugs at Morella , textiles and pottery at Puente del Arzobispo , sickles at La Solana , in La Mancha .
26 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 .
27 This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma .
28 The laser-Doppler anemometer measures velocity by measuring the Doppler shift of light scattered within the moving fluid .
29 They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence .
30 ‘ We have a number of small part-time one-person branches scattered over a wide rural area — the furthest one is 40 miles distant from headquarters .
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