Example sentences of "[was/were] scatter [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |
| 5 | The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks . |
| 6 | All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area . |
| 7 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |