Example sentences of "[noun] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As I spoke to Chauvet and several other Commandos scattered around the orchard , I was impressed by their determination to stay here in France , no matter what . |
| 32 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 33 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 34 | The sculptor pioneered approaches to his medium that young artists today take for granted : sculpture conceived as an ensemble of elements scattered over a wide area ; site-specific installation ; public ‘ interactive ’ art and sculpture on a colossal scale . |
| 35 | Without uttering a word , fitzAlan jerked Isabel roughly forward , at the same time riffling through the parchments scattered over the table . |
| 36 | Although the carriers are normally fully under the control of the computer , there is the facility for the work group to give commands to the computer from one of 40 VDUs scattered throughout the plant . |
| 37 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |
| 38 | If a small child rejects medicine dispensed by one of the medical posts scattered throughout the region , parents will not persist in the face of the child 's refusal ( see Robarchek 1980 ) . |
| 39 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
| 40 | The debris scattered to the ground . |
| 41 | On the book 's back cover is an elegant serene photograph of his sunken garden four august boulders scattered in a brick pattern , sprinkled with water which Noguchi built in New York 's Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza in 1964 . |
| 42 | It 's called Oxford Artweek , it lasts a fortnight and has 200 sites scattered over the county . |
| 43 | Six years later a papal envoy passing the city reported scarcely two hundred houses still standing , with human bones scattered across the countryside . |
| 44 | Here in this room was virtually every shade of that colour — from the cobalt-blue draperies , scattered with little hyacinth flowers , to the sapphire-blue cushions scattered over the bed and the powder-blue carpet , thick and soft beneath her feet . |
| 45 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 46 | Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan . |
| 47 | And what if all Palestinians scattered around the world do return home ? |
| 48 | In 1940 I was fortunate to find a summer job in the local tomato factory , one of the innumerable similar factories scattered in the Parma province . |
| 49 | Industrially the area is dominated by light engineering and manufacturing in the major industrial estates of Park Royal , part of East Acton , Wembley trading estate , East Lane Wembley and a number of independent factories scattered throughout the borough . |
| 50 | To call the Emperor 's troops an army is perhaps misleading , as there are really many different armies as well as garrison troops scattered throughout the Empire . |
| 51 | They needed to co-ordinate thousands of manufacturing operations in GM 's plants scattered across the USA ; and secondly they needed a system to control the supplying of its dealer network with vehicles and spare parts . |
| 52 | This army unit was the headquarters of all searchlight detachments scattered throughout the area of Holderness , and they were all supplied and maintained from Rise . |
| 53 | There is indeed a corpus of proverbs scattered through The Lord of the Rings , which add weight to the implications of interlace . |
| 54 | Chess pieces scattered from the board , but blinked out the instant they dropped below the level it was on , as though falling beneath some invisible beam . |
| 55 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 56 | A population concentrated in cities was more accessible to the influence of new ideological trends than a population scattered through the countryside . |
| 57 | Below these slopes , north of the village and on various plots scattered throughout the commune , the vines are not as well sited , but they provide wines outshining other premiers crus . |
| 58 | Charles Maclaren used to run his fishing course there and a devoted band of anglers return each year to battle with salmon and sea-trout in Naver , Mallart and Loch Hope ; or to enjoy marvellous trout fishing in the lochs scattered throughout the hills . |
| 59 | They had nearly arrived at the first of the longhouses scattered over the hillside , belonging to the families who stayed in Orphir all the year round and cared for the land and the hall on behalf of the Earl . |
| 60 | These estimates add up to the figures quoted earlier , namely between 28,000 and 40,000 wild Asian elephants scattered over an immense area . |