Example sentences of "[was/were] scattered [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Wheels and parts of the cars ' undercarriage were scattered along the track as rescue workers struggled to pull survivors from the wreckage of the train in the Amsterdam suburb of Hoofddorp .
2 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 .
3 A new water tower stood sentinel and only two or three tents were scattered outside the perimeter of a newly erected wire fence .
4 His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club .
5 Passengers ' baggage had spilled out of the hold and burst suitcases , charred books , swimming costumes and tubes of sun tan cream were scattered on the ground .
6 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 .
7 A few sections of rail were lying on the bottom , several more were scattered on the ground and one was propped against the end of the trailer as if whoever had been in the act of loading or unloading had abandoned it in a hurry .
8 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 .
9 Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope .
10 Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside , and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air .
11 He followed me round to the jetty where Laura 's clothes were scattered across the lawn .
12 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 .
13 When dawn broke , the jeeps and trucks were scattered over a wide area , camouflaged under bushes and in the lee of rocks .
14 The two Bf110s had crashed nearby , and ‘ … they were scattered over a wide area — we all went out to view the wrecks .
15 All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area .
16 While a large number of the items taken from Germany are held in special State-run storage facilities and are easy to work with , the majority of works removed from Russia were scattered over the world in the post-war period ’ .
17 ‘ Then she flew high over the site of Callanish above the men and the fallen bodies of her kind which were scattered over the site .
18 Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece .
19 Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity .
20 Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders .
21 Paper streamers like coiled fuses were scattered between the plates and wine bottles .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The Easter egg , overcome by heat , too much food , and an excess of wine , had to go and stand outside the door for a little fresh air , but came back full of verve and ready to tackle some of Willi 's bonbons that were scattered about the room in dishes in case anyone felt the need of more to eat .
25 Only between twenty and thirty guests were left and they were scattered about the gardens like so much confetti .
26 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 .
27 Burning lumps of phosphorus jelly were scattered amongst the containers , forming a foreground that was blinding .
28 The farmland remained but pit villages , with rows of terraced houses for the miners , were scattered throughout the region .
29 Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened .
30 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 .
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