Example sentences of "be scattered all " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart .
2 The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House .
3 The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country .
4 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
5 Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it .
6 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
7 in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth
8 and they did n't want to be scattered all over the earth so they built this er , he wanted to make , to make a name for themselves did n't they ?
9 Fragments of wicker were scattered all around the room ; a small pile of them marked the drain .
10 During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles .
11 He loved Meli so much his ashes were scattered all over her grave
12 It was here that Grandfather Denknetzeyan had spent many hours in deep contemplation while the seeds of revolution were scattered all around him , here that he spent his last moments in Moscow before setting out on that final and fateful journey to Petrograd .
13 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 .
14 The floor was covered by a large mosaic and I was really getting interested in some of the antics of the guys with beards who were scattered all over it , when I heard the tap-tap of her feet in the distance together with a heavier , more measured tread .
15 He was standing next to her pebble , yelling through a megaphone at the other beetles who were scattered all over the sheet measuring up circles drawn round all the various pebbles .
16 On the other hand , its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom , which made a northern town central .
17 The shots revealed piles of debris on the seabed , sections of aircraft wreckage and personal effects were scattered all around .
  Next page