Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was built around " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know at Wharram Percy in Yorkshire , for example , that the medieval village was fitted into a prehistoric and Roman field system ( Fig.30 ) , and at Hound Tor on Dartmoor the medieval hamlet was built around a Bronze Age settlement and its fields ( Fig. 47 ) . |
| 2 | The political environment in which Western academic studies of the Soviet Union have had to operate for most of the post-war period was built around several widely share assumptions ; that the USSR was a ‘ threat ’ , that socialism was a failure , that the Soviet state was incapable of rational modernisation . |
| 3 | With the eventual departure of Nik Powell , the inner core was built around Branson , Draper and Berry — a triumvirate whose similarity in medium-length haircuts , corduroy trousers and comfortable sweaters could , on occasion , make them look almost like brothers . |
| 4 | The Unionist recovery was built around Law 's leadership , but what Asquith called the " new style " of obstruction , threats and offensive behaviour did not originate with Law . |
| 5 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |