Example sentences of "scattered across [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 2 | The Theban necropolis , which includes almost 400 tombs and a handful of major temples , lay scattered across a sloping swath of desert between the cultivation and the hills . |
| 3 | Activity in Oxford city hospitals is at present scattered across a number of main sites ( the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals , the Radcliffe Infirmary , and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre ) as well as several smaller specialised sites ( Warneford , Littlemore , Rivermead , etc . ) . |
| 4 | Luckily they are more likely to be used to collect the used parachutes scattered across the DZ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 7 | For though it is hard for us to credit it now , many people believed that if you travelled faster than — say — 30 miles an hour , you might actually burst and be scattered across the railway lines . |
| 8 | Scattered across the lawn are station signs , railway seats and a ‘ Trains cross here ’ notice . |
| 9 | With estates scattered across the country and freedom from episcopal and royal jurisdiction , its mitred abbot was one of the great barons of England . |
| 10 | Old bicycles and a long-disused pram are scattered across the muddy front yard . |
| 11 | There was nothing special about the halt : it had a signal cabin , about a dozen levers , and a pair of gates to allow carts to cross to the farms scattered across the moors . |
| 12 | The official was a member of the staff of the Procurator General who had responsibility for the smooth running of the Correctional Labour Colonies scattered across the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . |
| 13 | THE REALLY good stuff is scattered across the record like the trail of Smarties in ET . |
| 14 | However when we arrived at the spot we were confronted by a group or ten or so 16–18 year olds scattered across the moor who were screaming and shouting as they jumped in and out of peat troughs . |
| 15 | Now that America and its European partners have said they will concentrate on protecting ‘ safe areas ’ in Bosnia , the Muslims are left in a kind of Balkan version of KwaZulu , the most fragmented of the black homelands scattered across the map of South Africa . |
| 16 | Two-thirds of the laity live scattered across the diocese . |
| 17 | There appears to have been a substantial number of ‘ rank and file ’ supporters scattered across the whole of both Galilee and Judaea . |
| 18 | With smaller scale in the producing unit , the entry costs to many component businesses have declined and allowed a proliferation of new entrants scattered across the globe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She found him sitting up in bed , a score of his medical texts and notes scattered across the heavy coverlet . |
| 21 | Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside , and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air . |
| 22 | Alexei scuffed his heel through the tan which had been scattered across the clay . |
| 23 | Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength . |
| 24 | He followed me round to the jetty where Laura 's clothes were scattered across the lawn . |
| 25 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 26 | They can occur associated with ridge and furrow and village earthworks , but they are more widespread on upland areas like Dartmoor , where hundreds of them are scattered across the upland pasture . |
| 27 | When the mice had scattered across the carpet and melted into the shadows by the wainscoting , Alexandra picked up their home of five days and carried it back to her tower room . |
| 28 | Six years later a papal envoy passing the city reported scarcely two hundred houses still standing , with human bones scattered across the countryside . |
| 29 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 30 | It was crushed , its parts scattered across the room . |