Example sentences of "is scattered [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As it grows , the grass is scattered with the dusky blue and magenta petals of meadow cranesbill and , as the hay ripens , seeding heads of sorrel colour its sunset-gold with red .
2 The western part of Mordovia is scattered with the Correctional Labour Colonies that are administered by the Ministry of the Interior in the distant capital .
3 THE REALLY good stuff is scattered across the record like the trail of Smarties in ET .
4 It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area .
5 Barron never achieved the major work on heraldry for which his friends hoped ; his learning is scattered through the pages of the Ancestor and the Victoria County Histories .
6 When the particle reaches the point at which the particle-antiparticle pair originally materialized , it is scattered by the gravitational field so that it travels forward in time .
7 The underlying idea here is that every corporation , willy-nilly , acquires large amounts of information that is potentially useful in a competitive sense ; but that this information is scattered throughout the firm in its various divisions , units , departments and so on .
8 Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story .
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