Example sentences of "be scattered [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 2 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 3 | Memories died : and the dead dogs ' bones , picked bare by the vultures , had been scattered on the shingle or swept into the river now flooded with melted mountain snow . |
| 4 | All the rags of newspapers , that a mob will scatter , seemed to have been scattered on the sea and then danced and trodden on till mess was everywhere . |
| 5 | The spirals and stars of frost on the window were stained with pastel hues , as if droplets of glowing inks had been scattered across the icy glass . |
| 6 | Alexei scuffed his heel through the tan which had been scattered across the clay . |
| 7 | Hereabouts , Beryl Love 's ashes must have been scattered beneath a rose bush , though he knew better than to think Ernie might have invested in a memorial plaque . |
| 8 | To the sensor it appears that all the energy has been reflected from point P on the ground whereas , in fact , it has not , because some has been scattered within the atmosphere and has never reached the ground at all . |
| 9 | Tiny particles of uranium oxide , containing radioactive isotopes of caesium , strontium and plutonium , had been scattered in their millions over the surrounding countryside . |
| 10 | It resembles a schoolboy 's notes which have been scattered in the wind and hastily gathered together again with some pages missing and others out of sequence . |
| 11 | The move brings together the board 's 61 admin staff , who have been scattered in three different premises — Kirk headquarters at 121 George Street , Wallace House in Granton and the Tom Allan Centre in Glasgow . |
| 12 | to display related aspects of a subject which have been scattered by the order of subjects chosen in the main classified order . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In countries where state-owned enterprises have typically been scattered among different economic sectors alongside private capital , the conventional form of public enterprise directly responsible to a ministry has been supplemented by the state holding company ; for example , IRI in Italy , and INI and INH ( the oil and gas sector holding company ) in Spain . |
| 15 | But the artistic world is London Underground 's oyster when it comes to the fine art posters which , since the scheme started in 1986 , have been scattered amongst less erudite advertisements on station walls . |
| 16 | Most Croatian Serbs do not live in Krajina but are scattered through the republic . |
| 17 | There is a statue of I.K. Brunel in the new town centre at Swindon ( q.v. ) and another on London 's Victoria Embankment , but his real monuments are the great engineering works still in use which are scattered through this book . |
| 18 | Similar cases are scattered through the records . |
| 19 | Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips . |
| 20 | Ancient castles , burial chambers , ruins and churches are scattered over the area , highlighting the rich cultural heritage and providing a contrast to the golden sands , estuaries and wooded valleys . |
| 21 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 22 | The disk is round to subpentagonal ; covered with thickened skin ; no scales but granules are scattered over the surface which are more conspicuous in dried specimens ; disk diameter up to 20 mm . |
| 23 | Small granules are scattered over the surface some developed into low spinelets . |
| 24 | Valleys in the Yorkshire Dales are scattered with dozens of these field barns , virtually all disused . |
| 25 | Our Christmas party sweaters for big and little girls are scattered with all the motifs of the season and what could be more delightful than Wendy Phillips ' teddies , kissing under the mistletoe ? |
| 26 | Backing up street-style jargon , the songs are scattered with moans , sirens , loops of gunshots or machine guns , and other street sounds which reinforce the authenticity of the subject matter . |
| 27 | His letters of 1871 are scattered with remarks pointing up the contrast : on the one side " our German mission " and " old Germanic health " , on the other " that fatal anti-cultural Prussia " and " our whole threadbare culture " . |
| 28 | But the works on paper are scattered with other goings-on — like contemporary creations of Hieronymus Bosch — we see mermaids cruelly trying to drown Wendy ; ghosts , demons and men with hollow eyes pursuing the children . |
| 29 | Astrological charts , a couple of crystal balls on oddly clawed stands , litters of long-decayed scrolls , and similar items are scattered about the floor , on a couple of tables , and on stands . |
| 30 | A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard … |