Example sentences of "[be] scatter [prep] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 to display related aspects of a subject which have been scattered by the order of subjects chosen in the main classified order .
2 A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard …
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Other firms engaged in merchant banking are scattered among the categories of ‘ foreign ’ , ‘ other British ’ and ‘ consortium ’ banks .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 …
9 A new water tower stood sentinel and only two or three tents were scattered outside the perimeter of a newly erected wire fence .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Work in the field is scattered between a number of approaches and takes as its subject differing historical periods and geographical areas .
16 The school is scattered in a series of classrooms that dot several interlocking valleys .
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