Example sentences of "[be] scatter [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most of these patches are subdivided , and 26 small units of DNs are scattered over a wide area . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 6 | Using H-thymidine autoradiography , Deschner , Lipkin , et al have shown that in high-risk subjects , proliferating cells are not confined to the lower two thirds of the colonic crypts , as they are in normal subjects , but are scattered throughout the entire length of the gland . |
| 7 | Reaction primers match sequences in the ubiquitous interspersed repetitive sequences , of which about a million copies are scattered throughout the human genome . |
| 8 | The ashes will then be scattered to the four points of the Earth . |
| 9 | For the city-centre church this will mean working with a map of the entire city , in recognition that the majority of their congregation will be scattered over a large area . |
| 10 | For us , though , they are important , because if one plotted a map to show the distribution of all earthquake centres in the world for the last ten years , a large proportion of them would be scattered along the oceanic ridges . |
| 11 | Their houses , no more than huts , were scattered along the sunken tracks or half hidden in woods , or else perched on the slopes of the low hills . |
| 12 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 13 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 14 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 15 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 16 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 17 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
| 18 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although it is scattered throughout the idealised version , in the original version it is confined to the first half of the story . |
| 21 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |