Example sentences of "was littered with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earth was littered with the corpses of those who had done no wrong , whereas those who caused great torment to others rarely got their deserts . |
| 2 | The area was littered with the carcases of livestock in scenes reminiscent of the 1984–85 famine that left up to a million dead and prompted Bob Geldof 's Band Aid campaign . |
| 3 | These include remains from beneath an osprey 's nest in Sweden , where the pellets were small and contained no bone but the ground was littered with the defleshed remains of many fish . |
| 4 | Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. was responsible 30 years ago for the development of quantum electrodynamics — the first modern relativistic quantum theory — writes in his autobiography of that period that ‘ the ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories ’ . |
| 5 | Then he lifted the body so that the blood dribbled over the stones and spilt on to the ground in front of him , where it was littered with the remains of other , older offerings — dead flowers , grains of rice and barley , a few coins . |
| 6 | However , it is questionable whether this recantation at the level of economic theory provides the clue as to the practical reasons why the road to the high inflation of the 1970s was littered with the wrecks of attempts at incomes policies . |
| 7 | There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two . |