Example sentences of "[pron] are 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 Tomorrow they will go back to their units , Which are scattered from Hong Kong to Berlin , Northern Ireland and all over Great Britain .
3 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 .
4 ‘ The first command was ‘ Let the gases which are scattered throughout space be collected together and with them let worlds be formed ’ , then the gases were brought together into whirling circulating masses [ Nebulae ] . ’
5 Your skin is being bombarded with sunrays which are scattered and reflected off other surfaces .
6 In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments .
7 Capture the feeling of the city from the network of canals which thread their way through the city , visit some of the hundreds of temples which are scattered everywhere , and do n't miss the bustling floating markets .
8 Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector .
9 Marx 's own theory of the class struggle was hardly more than sketched , in occasional passages which are scattered throughout his writings , and it was never presented in a systematic way .
10 Zack must find his tools which are scattered around the factory .
11 Mr Jackson , who lives in Green Lane , Barnard Castle , believes a folk museum would be an ideal way of collecting records on the town which are scattered throughout archives in the North East .
12 ‘ Just the knowledge of each other 's being there is great even though we are scattered .
13 Its magnitude is officially given as below 9 , so that it should be invisible with binoculars ; I have suspected it with × 12 or higher magnification , but it is difficult to be sure , as there are scattered disconnected stars around .
14 These give an idea of the arrangement and orientation of the conodont apparatus , but an exact restoration is difficult because they are scattered .
15 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 .
16 But they are scattered . ’
17 Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips .
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