Example sentences of "[be] scatter [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 2 | to display related aspects of a subject which have been scattered by the order of subjects chosen in the main classified order . |
| 3 | A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Other firms engaged in merchant banking are scattered among the categories of ‘ foreign ’ , ‘ other British ’ and ‘ consortium ’ banks . |
| 8 | The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias . |
| 9 | Over eighty-five per cent of these are scattered throughout the country in small villages and hamlets . |
| 10 | The facts on which you must build your argument are scattered throughout the statement of the problem in what the examiner thinks is flowing English , but which is sometimes anything but clear . |
| 11 | The ash will be scattered on the floor throughout the hospital . |
| 12 | Thus , whereas in the relational model information about the object customer would be scattered over a number of relations ( which could be : customer , holding customer name and address information ; sales ledger , holding details about the debts of the customer ; invoice , holding details of payments due ) , in the object-oriented model there would be one object , customer , reflecting all this information . |
| 13 | The submissions may be drawn together but can appear anywhere in the judgment or they may simply also be scattered through the judgment amongst the judicial reasoning , which may itself be discursive . |
| 14 | Touch church or touch party in your antislavery efforts and all their zeal for the slave would be scattered in the twinkling of an eye … |
| 15 | A new water tower stood sentinel and only two or three tents were scattered outside the perimeter of a newly erected wire fence . |
| 16 | Gandhi 's ashes were scattered on the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Allahabad on May 28 in a ceremony that marked the end of the funeral service . |
| 17 | While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ . |
| 18 | Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti . |
| 19 | The Easter egg , overcome by heat , too much food , and an excess of wine , had to go and stand outside the door for a little fresh air , but came back full of verve and ready to tackle some of Willi 's bonbons that were scattered about the room in dishes in case anyone felt the need of more to eat . |
| 20 | A few miles from Huntspill , in the hamlet of Shurton , lived Henry Poole , a fellow student of Coleridge 's at Jesus College , and one member of a large and talented family whose various branches were scattered through a number of local villages . |
| 21 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 22 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 23 | THE REALLY good stuff is scattered across the record like the trail of Smarties in ET . |
| 24 | It crashed into the peak and flipped over , although the tail section is recognisable , wreckage is scattered down the hill over a wide area . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas . |
| 27 | The school is scattered in a series of classrooms that dot several interlocking valleys . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
| 30 | Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily . |