Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] are scattered " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Similar cases are scattered through the records . |
| 4 | Automobiles , machinery , electronics , chemicals and many others are somewhere in the middle : the choices made by individual firms are scattered all across the map . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Similar disasters are scattered piecemeal all over Britain , on bomb sites and over the slums they were built to clear . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Shipwrecks , says Colin Sheaf , are usually violent affairs in which valuable cargoes are scattered or smashed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Frustrated foxes , singing birds , enchanted islands and smiling Chinamen are scattered in a splendid excess of modelling up the trailing vines of inspired invention . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Small granules are scattered over the surface some developed into low spinelets . |
| 15 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 16 | A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard … |
| 17 | Apart from the Rhineland , Romanesque examples are scattered throughout Germany . |