Example sentences of "[be] scatter [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 3 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 4 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
| 5 | Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas . |
| 6 | The TOF of an incident ion of mass M 1 and energy E that is scattered from a target atom of mass M & sub2 : at an angle θ is given by : where L is the flight distance . |
| 7 | The school is scattered in a series of classrooms that dot several interlocking valleys . |