Example sentences of "[noun pl] are scattered " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmhouses are scattered , or dispersed across the landscape just a few fields apart from one another . |
| 2 | Reaction primers match sequences in the ubiquitous interspersed repetitive sequences , of which about a million copies are scattered throughout the human genome . |
| 3 | Similar cases are scattered through the records . |
| 4 | The Oxford group was at the forefront of X-ray crystallography , a technique for deducing atomic architecture from the way X-rays are scattered . |
| 5 | Backing up street-style jargon , the songs are scattered with moans , sirens , loops of gunshots or machine guns , and other street sounds which reinforce the authenticity of the subject matter . |
| 6 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 7 | Small cafes and restaurants ring the quayside ; grocery and hardware shops are scattered around . |
| 8 | Typical Polynesian huts are scattered throughout the grounds , each with its own lanai giving substantial views towards the ocean , and the complex has a choice of fine restaurants and bars for intimate meals or more lively evenings . |
| 9 | The lifts are scattered about , and each one serves only selected floors . |
| 10 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 11 | Imagine a polyglot College Art Association conference whose concurrent sessions are scattered around town for an entire week , and you will have some idea of the confusion that enveloped the event . |
| 12 | The best site is about a mile and a half north-west of Coniston village in the upper valley of Church Beck , where there is a Youth Hostel , but many other disused sites are scattered about . |
| 13 | Valleys in the Yorkshire Dales are scattered with dozens of these field barns , virtually all disused . |
| 14 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 15 | Shipwrecks , says Colin Sheaf , are usually violent affairs in which valuable cargoes are scattered or smashed . |
| 16 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 17 | The rounds are scattered on the kitchen table , and I 'm moving the pistol from hand to hand like I was kneading a blob of putty . |
| 18 | ( The abacus beads are scattered randomly on the wires of the abacus . ) |
| 19 | Agriculture still has more employers than any other industry , but the workers are scattered , mostly in ones and twos , across the countryside and in some of the most isolated and inaccessible areas . |
| 20 | Possibly in nature the eggs are scattered at the surface of the sea among minute plankton which serves as food for the fry and the almost freshwater in the spawning aquarium was a contributing factor to the loss of the fry . |
| 21 | Among the range of paintings adorning her home , recent works by people like Duncan Shanks are scattered among the woodcuts of her late husband and earlier favourites like DY Cameron . |
| 22 | Automobiles , machinery , electronics , chemicals and many others are somewhere in the middle : the choices made by individual firms are scattered all across the map . |
| 23 | Empty black plastic sacks are scattered about , together with piles of crumpled brown paper . |
| 24 | Astrological charts , a couple of crystal balls on oddly clawed stands , litters of long-decayed scrolls , and similar items are scattered about the floor , on a couple of tables , and on stands . |
| 25 | Similar disasters are scattered piecemeal all over Britain , on bomb sites and over the slums they were built to clear . |
| 26 | Sulphur fins are attached to sapphire bodies , orange spots are scattered on a sage-green flank , chocolate-brown scales are individually rimmed with peacock blue , tails are patterned like archery targets with a golden centre surrounded by outers of scarlet , black and white . |
| 27 | Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart . |
| 28 | Our Christmas party sweaters for big and little girls are scattered with all the motifs of the season and what could be more delightful than Wendy Phillips ' teddies , kissing under the mistletoe ? |
| 29 | The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada , Utah and California . |
| 30 | Apart from the Rhineland , Romanesque examples are scattered throughout Germany . |