Example sentences of "be scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Alexei scuffed his heel through the tan which had been scattered across the clay . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | to display related aspects of a subject which have been scattered by the order of subjects chosen in the main classified order . |
| 11 | Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips . |
| 12 | Most Croatian Serbs do not live in Krajina but are scattered through the republic . |
| 13 | Similar cases are scattered through the records . |
| 14 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Small granules are scattered over the surface some developed into low spinelets . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard … |
| 20 | Possibly in nature the eggs are scattered at the surface of the sea among minute plankton which serves as food for the fry and the almost freshwater in the spawning aquarium was a contributing factor to the loss of the fry . |
| 21 | Sulphur fins are attached to sapphire bodies , orange spots are scattered on a sage-green flank , chocolate-brown scales are individually rimmed with peacock blue , tails are patterned like archery targets with a golden centre surrounded by outers of scarlet , black and white . |
| 22 | Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity . |
| 23 | The rounds are scattered on the kitchen table , and I 'm moving the pistol from hand to hand like I was kneading a blob of putty . |
| 24 | Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A few coins — 6 Marienburg Guilders , 2 Imperial Crowns , 14 Imperial Shillings and a solitary Bretonnian Penny — are scattered amongst the filth . |
| 27 | Other firms engaged in merchant banking are scattered among the categories of ‘ foreign ’ , ‘ other British ’ and ‘ consortium ’ banks . |
| 28 | Among the range of paintings adorning her home , recent works by people like Duncan Shanks are scattered among the woodcuts of her late husband and earlier favourites like DY Cameron . |
| 29 | Something like 4m people who speak Greek , or think of themselves as Greek , are scattered around the world . |
| 30 | The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias . |