Example sentences of "[was/were] scatter [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europeans had few military resources and the only significant American forces were scattered on occupation duties in Germany . |
| 2 | After he died of a heart attack in 1968 on the dock next to his boat at the Waikiki Yacht Club , his ashes were scattered over Kalahuewehe break . |
| 3 | His ashes were scattered over Eton playing-fields from his own plane . |
| 4 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 5 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated in November that 581,000 refugees from former Yugoslavia were scattered throughout Europe . |
| 6 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 7 | Practical problems were caused for parliamentarians by the fact that Community bodies were scattered in Strasbourg , Luxembourg and Brussels . |
| 8 | They were scattered in panic by the Nez Perce warriors ' fierce fire . |
| 9 | The stars were scattered in fragments across the sky . |
| 10 | The desert was scattered with hills , like smooth dark whales riding in a flat sea . |
| 11 | The land was scattered with stars . |
| 12 | The sun shone over everything , sparkling on the water , and what with that and her own tears it seemed to Ruth that the sea was scattered with diamonds . |
| 13 | Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth . |
| 14 | All sorts of debris was scattered in profusion . |