Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] scattered [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
3 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 ’ .
4 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 ’ .
5 Mr Robson told Cleveland Coroner Michael Sheffield the telephone was off the hook and things were scattered around the room .
6 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 .
7 Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside , and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air .
8 Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily .
9 A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 A new water tower stood sentinel and only two or three tents were scattered outside the perimeter of a newly erected wire fence .
14 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 .
15 He followed me round to the jetty where Laura 's clothes were scattered across the lawn .
16 His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club .
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