Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Through the holes in the side of the Hongkong Banking Group building in Bishopsgate , papers fluttered on desks , books were scattered around the rooms . |
3 | Whereas previously the exhibition sites for the participating countries were scattered throughout the city , this year the entire show will be housed in the Feshane , a nineteenth-century fez factory which the Italian architect Gae Aulenti is converting into Istanbul 's first museum of contemporary art the Nejat Eczacibasi Museum . |
4 | These new powers , however , were buttressed by substantial grants of land , which led one chronicler to remark that the resources of the crown had been dissipated and a modern historian to comment rather sourly that ‘ hereditary offices and jurisdictions were scattered in a way hardly compatible either with the interests of the crown , or with sound finance ’ . |
5 | Mr Robson told Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield the telephone was off the hook and things were scattered around the room . |
6 | Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside , and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air . |
7 | A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square . |
8 | Even so , pyramid-shaped stone bases for medium-sized double-axes survive in the Labyrinth , proving that double-axes were scattered about the building , like crucifixes in a church . |
9 | Threads were scattered on the surface and flour and sand trodden in to simulate dust and grit ( a major cause of wear ) and the cleaner 's overall efficiency was recorded . |
10 | A new water tower stood sentinel and only two or three tents were scattered outside the perimeter of a newly erected wire fence . |
11 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
12 | Dining chairs were scattered about the room ; there was a battered filing cabinet with a bulging , open drawer next to a massive sideboard with a marble top . |
13 | He followed me round to the jetty where Laura 's clothes were scattered across the lawn . |
14 | Paper streamers like coiled fuses were scattered between the plates and wine bottles . |
15 | Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece . |
16 | His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks . |