Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no longer any need for you to stick your head in the sand regarding financial matters , come out and take a look at the world around you . |
| 2 | In his speech before the Indian Parliament in December 1980 Brezhnev denied that the Soviet Union posed a threat to the Gulf Soviet leaders proposed sureties for Western interests in Gulf oil and by 1981 expressed their readiness ‘ to take part in a settlement of the situation around Afghanistan … linked with matters of Persian Gulf security ’ . |
| 3 | Soviet officials were relieved when the Iranian government replaced this extremist plan in July 1982 with the view that a settlement of the situation around Afghanistan should be based on ‘ the principles of Islam and non-alignment ’ . |
| 4 | A glance at the inscription around the front face of the lens will tell you the focal length and the maximum f , or aperture number . |
| 5 | The research methodology involves a study of the area around a junior school , the social organisation of its population ; an in-depth study of a number of households spanning a range of class and ethnic origins , and a survey of households with children in the same school . |
| 6 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 7 | I checked that the bomb was all right , especially that the white crystals of the explosive mixture were dry , then added a plastic-straw fuse and a charge of the explosive around the hole bored in the black pipe and taped everything up . |
| 8 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 9 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 10 | It is a sign of the nervousness around Europe that when the Irish asked a week ago for the treaty negotiations to be reopened so that they could amend the abortion protocol , other countries reacted with horror . |
| 11 | Priscus was a native of the region around Chartres in Gaul and both may have been employed in the construction of the great bath and temple complex . |
| 12 | As she sat rubbing her foot a sense of the ground around her intruded on her anger ; a sense of the garden as a place , with its own shape and past . |
| 13 | He was sitting near the far wall , as far from everyone else as possible and , having cleared a space in the rubbish around him , had drawn a crude circle on the floor with a sliver of chalk he had begged from Apanage . |
| 14 | It interrogates earlier state , academic and other public responses to the black presence in education , and documents their continuing influence and weaknesses in a critique of the debate around the question of black ‘ underachievement ’ in education . |
| 15 | It is relatively easy to see myths as constituting a discourse that provides knowledge for members of a culture of the world around them . |
| 16 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 17 | Through a sophisticated structural analysis of features ranging from window position to door latch , Glassie-reconstructs a major change taking place around the late 1870s ( 1975 : 182 , 185 ) , in which chimneys and central halls became incorporated into the main building , and a new concern with symmetry appears , along with a homogenization of the exterior around a more conspicuously ordered façade . |