Example sentences of "scattered [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruno 's vista of an infinite plurality of star systems , scattered through an infinite universe , was unacceptable because of its relativistic implications . |
| 2 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 3 | Dead trees turn out to be commonplace — hundreds of them standing knee deep in the wide , slow meanders of the Murray River or more loosely scattered in a macabre parkland where what passes for good grazing has been toasted a mauvy brown by the long summer sun . |
| 4 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 5 | An increasing population , particularly one scattered in an unplanned fashion throughout a region , increases substantially the cost of service provision . |
| 6 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 7 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 8 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 9 | Severed human limbs , heads and trunks lay scattered over a wide area ; other human remains , accompanied by tattered shreds of uniform , hung grotesquely from the remaining tree branches . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Clinical waste disposal is one of the areas where many difficulties can arise if the hospital site is ( as many older psychiatric facilities are ) geographically remote and scattered over a wide area . |
| 12 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 13 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For the city-centre church this will mean working with a map of the entire city , in recognition that the majority of their congregation will be scattered over a large area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |
| 18 | Sulphur fins are attached to sapphire bodies , orange spots are scattered on a sage-green flank , chocolate-brown scales are individually rimmed with peacock blue , tails are patterned like archery targets with a golden centre surrounded by outers of scarlet , black and white . |
| 19 | Scattered on a coastal ridge , |
| 20 | The Theban necropolis , which includes almost 400 tombs and a handful of major temples , lay scattered across a sloping swath of desert between the cultivation and the hills . |
| 21 | By use of the alphabetical sequence , it gathers together all aspects of a concrete subject which are likely to have been scattered by a discipline-orientated approach in the basic order of the scheme . |
| 22 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |