Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] scattered " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 2 | ‘ Just the knowledge of each other 's being there is great even though we are scattered . |
| 3 | ‘ Come , ’ they say to one another , ‘ Let us build ourselves a city , and a tower with its top in the heavens , and let us make a name for ourselves , lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ’ ( 11.4 ) . |
| 4 | These give an idea of the arrangement and orientation of the conodont apparatus , but an exact restoration is difficult because they are scattered . |
| 5 | The analysis of such accidents is also bedevilled by the fact that they are scattered widely through residential areas , with few clusters or ‘ black-spots ’ in evidence . |
| 6 | But they are scattered . ’ |
| 7 | Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips . |
| 8 | You can save them more easily , than when they 're scattered about . |
| 9 | They were scattered in panic by the Nez Perce warriors ' fierce fire . |
| 10 | The battle continued up as far as Wight and across to France and Gravelines until , as the world knows , ‘ God blew with his wind and they were scattered ’ . |
| 11 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 12 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 13 | They were scattered everywhere , great lumps of the white flint of which the mountain was formed . |
| 14 | Every St Kildan family owned a number of cleits and they were scattered all over the island , many of them convenient to the bird cliffs because ‘ fresh ’ birds were much heavier than those that had dried out , and everything had to be carried back to the village eventually . |
| 15 | Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti . |
| 16 | When scumbling on a canvas the surface is lightly agitated , so that the light which falls upon it is scattered . |
| 17 | It is not readily identifiable with × 12 or lower power , but is easy with × 20 , though it is scattered and not at all conspicuous . |
| 18 | When the particle reaches the point at which the particle-antiparticle pair originally materialized , it is scattered by the gravitational field so that it travels forward in time . |
| 19 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 20 | In Sussex the manufacture of cloth had never reached major proportions ; what little there was of it was scattered , chiefly in the Weald . |