Example sentences of "[be] scatter [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His letters of 1871 are scattered with remarks pointing up the contrast : on the one side " our German mission " and " old Germanic health " , on the other " that fatal anti-cultural Prussia " and " our whole threadbare culture " . |
| 2 | Backing up street-style jargon , the songs are scattered with moans , sirens , loops of gunshots or machine guns , and other street sounds which reinforce the authenticity of the subject matter . |
| 3 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 4 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 5 | F. Rows of terraced houses , like those in the photograph , are scattered in places in the hills . |
| 6 | Tomorrow they will go back to their units , Which are scattered from Hong Kong to Berlin , Northern Ireland and all over Great Britain . |
| 7 | Mr Jackson , who lives in Green Lane , Barnard Castle , believes a folk museum would be an ideal way of collecting records on the town which are scattered throughout archives in the North East . |
| 8 | ‘ The first command was ‘ Let the gases which are scattered throughout space be collected together and with them let worlds be formed ’ , then the gases were brought together into whirling circulating masses [ Nebulae ] . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from the Rhineland , Romanesque examples are scattered throughout Germany . |
| 10 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 11 | Europeans had few military resources and the only significant American forces were scattered on occupation duties in Germany . |
| 12 | After he died of a heart attack in 1968 on the dock next to his boat at the Waikiki Yacht Club , his ashes were scattered over Kalahuewehe break . |
| 13 | His ashes were scattered over Eton playing-fields from his own plane . |
| 14 | The ashes of a Hartlepool woman whose son died during the Falklands War were scattered at sea yesterday . |
| 15 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated in November that 581,000 refugees from former Yugoslavia were scattered throughout Europe . |
| 16 | President Bush had reason to use military force to protect Americans because thousands were scattered around Panama and Gen Noriega 's troops had shown a willingness to harass and even kill them , Mr Goldman said . |
| 17 | Practical problems were caused for parliamentarians by the fact that Community bodies were scattered in Strasbourg , Luxembourg and Brussels . |
| 18 | They were scattered in panic by the Nez Perce warriors ' fierce fire . |
| 19 | The stars were scattered in fragments across the sky . |
| 20 | The men would risk being scattered on landing and the pilots would find it difficult to navigate because of the sand being blown about by the wind . |
| 21 | There they witnessed the blood of sacrifices , human as well as animal , being scattered over ornaments including a ceremonial collar of fifteen to twenty coral necklaces . |
| 22 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 23 | PRO Dogs awards dinner is scattered with life-savers , canine oscar-winning pets and devoted dutiful dogs of distinction . |
| 24 | English history is scattered with philosophers generating theories that have failed to find congenial soil in the nation 's consciousness . |
| 25 | Few children interpreted the question as a physicist might , involving the way light is scattered from objects into our eyes . |
| 26 | The desert was scattered with hills , like smooth dark whales riding in a flat sea . |
| 27 | The land was scattered with stars . |
| 28 | The sun shone over everything , sparkling on the water , and what with that and her own tears it seemed to Ruth that the sea was scattered with diamonds . |
| 29 | Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth . |
| 30 | All sorts of debris was scattered in profusion . |