Example sentences of "[pron] [be] scatter [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 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 .
3 Zack must find his tools which are scattered around the factory .
4 ‘ Then she flew high over the site of Callanish above the men and the fallen bodies of her kind which were scattered over the site .
5 Sarah was allowed to dust and polish in Mr Bradford 's rooms , a duty given only to trusted servants since it meant moving many of his important papers , but when she went in there after her return she dropped one of his boxes and everything was scattered over the carpet .
6 Now they are scattered through every town and village , families founded on ice cream and fish and chips .
7 Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti .
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